{"id":532,"date":"2013-02-12T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?page_id=532"},"modified":"2013-02-12T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:38:32","slug":"america-the-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?page_id=532","title":{"rendered":"America the Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LORD Is My Banner!\u00a0 From Exodus 17:15<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

America the Beautiful<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Words by Katharine Lee Bates,<\/em><\/strong>
\nMelody by Samuel Ward<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

O beautiful for spacious skies,<\/strong><\/span>
\nFor amber waves of grain,<\/strong><\/span>
\nFor purple mountain majesties<\/strong><\/span>
\nAbove the fruited plain!<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerica! America!<\/strong><\/span>
\nGod shed his grace on thee<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd crown thy good with brotherhood<\/strong><\/span>
\nFrom sea to shining sea!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

O beautiful for pilgrim feet<\/strong><\/span>
\nWhose stern impassioned stress<\/strong><\/span>
\nA thoroughfare of freedom beat<\/strong><\/span>
\nAcross the wilderness!<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerica! America!<\/strong><\/span>
\nGod mend thine every flaw,<\/strong><\/span>
\nConfirm thy soul in self-control,<\/strong><\/span>
\nThy liberty in law!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

O beautiful for heroes proved<\/strong><\/span>
\nIn liberating strife.<\/strong><\/span>
\nWho more than self their country loved<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd mercy more than life!<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerica! America!<\/strong><\/span>
\nMay God thy gold refine<\/strong><\/span>
\nTill all success be nobleness<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd every gain divine!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

O beautiful for patriot dream<\/strong><\/span>
\nThat sees beyond the years<\/strong><\/span>
\nThine alabaster cities gleam<\/strong><\/span>
\nUndimmed by human tears!<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerica! America!<\/strong><\/span>
\nGod shed his grace on thee<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd crown thy good with brotherhood<\/strong><\/span>
\nFrom sea to shining sea!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

O beautiful for halcyon skies,<\/strong><\/span>
\nFor amber waves of grain,<\/strong><\/span>
\nFor purple mountain majesties<\/strong><\/span>
\nAbove the enameled plain!<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerica! America!<\/strong><\/span>
\nGod shed his grace on thee<\/strong><\/span>
\nTill souls wax fair as earth and air<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd music-hearted sea!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,<\/strong><\/span>
\nWhose stem impassioned stress<\/strong><\/span>
\nA thoroughfare for freedom beat<\/strong><\/span>
\nAcross the wilderness!<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerica! America!<\/strong><\/span>
\nGod shed his grace on thee<\/strong><\/span>
\nTill paths be wrought through<\/strong><\/span>
\nwilds of thought<\/strong><\/span>
\nBy pilgrim foot and knee!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

O beautiful for glory-tale<\/strong><\/span>
\nOf liberating strife<\/strong><\/span>
\nWhen once and twice,<\/strong><\/span>
\nfor man’s avail<\/strong><\/span>
\nMen lavished precious life!<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerica! America!<\/strong><\/span>
\nGod shed his grace on thee<\/strong><\/span>
\nTill selfish gain no longer stain<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe banner of the free!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

O beautiful for patriot dream<\/strong><\/span>
\nThat sees beyond the years<\/strong><\/span>
\nThine alabaster cities gleam<\/strong><\/span>
\nUndimmed by human tears!<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerica! America!<\/strong><\/span>
\nGod shed his grace on thee<\/strong><\/span>
\nTill nobler men keep once again<\/strong><\/span>
\nThy whiter jubilee!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The LORD Is My Banner!\u00a0 From Exodus 17:15 America the Beautiful Words by Katharine Lee Bates, Melody by Samuel Ward 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":525,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-532","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions\/548"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}