America the Beautiful

"America the Beautiful", yurtsever temalı bir ABD şarkısı. Şarkının sözleri Katharine Lee Bates tarafından yazılırken müziği Samuel A. Ward tarafından bestelendi. Şarkı, ABD'deki en bilinen yurtsever şarkılardan biridir.

Sözleri 

Orijinal şiir (1893)
America. A Poem for July 4.

O beautiful for spacious 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!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
 Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
 Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
 Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
 Of liberating strife,
When once or twice, for man's avail,
 Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
 God shed His grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain,
 The banner of the free!

O 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
Till nobler men keep once again
 Thy whiter jubilee!

1904 versiyonu
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!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for glorious tale
Of liberating strife,
When valiantly for man's avail
Men lavish precious life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.

O 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.

1913 versiyonu
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!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

O 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!

Kaynakça 

 Sherr, Lynn (2001). America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation's Favorite Song. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-085-1.

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