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  1. A quotation from Katharine Lee Bates

    O beautiful for halcyon skies,
       For amber waves of grain,
    For purple mountain majesties
       Above the enameled plain!
          America! America!
       God shed his grace on thee
    Till souls wax fair as earth and air
       And music-hearted sea!

    Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) American writer and poet
    Poem (1893), “America,” st. 1, The Congregationalist, Vol. 80, No. 27 (1895-07-04)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/bates-katharine-lee/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #katharineleebates #americathebeautiful #America #anthem #beauty #hymn #song

  2. @Professor_Stevens @Tooden @georgetakei

    Mark Birdsall has "always thought that America The Beautiful was a better anthem than the Star Spangled Banner" [the vocal range is definitely more accessible!] ... but that "the verse with 'alabaster cities undimmed by human tears' did not fit the reality at all".

    His suggested replacement:

    O beautiful for blood long shed
    In Freedom's labor pains,
    The sweat and tears
    Of many years
    Must never be in vain;
    America, America,
    Let all hearts beat as one,
    And let there be
    Equality
    From sun to rising sun.

    tech.lgbt/@grinningcat/1127268

    #StarSpangledBanner #NationalAnthem #NationalAnthems #AmericaTheBeautiful #NewLyrics #NewWords

  3. Your regular reminder that “America the Beautiful” can be sung to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne,” and vice versa. #AmericaTheBeautiful #AuldLangSyne #FourthOfJuly #IndependenceDay