Sunday, July 04, 2004

THIS should be our National Anthem

Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

Oh beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness!

Oh beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!

Oh beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears!


America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!


Amen.

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