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.