O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
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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!
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First stanza of the earlier version "America : A Poem for July 4", in The American Kitchen Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 4 (July 1897), p. 151