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Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? O beautiful for glory-tale Of liberating strife When once and twice, for man's avail Men lavished precious life! God shed his grace on thee Till selfish gain no longer stain The banner of the free! God shed his grace on thee Till nobler men keep once again Thy whiter jubilee! Credit for some: Library of Congress, Music Division.

The author of "America the Beautiful," Katharine Lee Bates, was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts in and grew up near the rolling sea. Bates, who eventually became a full professor of English literature at Wellesley College, made a lecture trip to Colorado in and there she wrote the words to "America the Beautiful.

Prairie wagons, their tail-boards emblazoned with the traditional slogan, "Pike's Peak or Bust," were pulled by horses up to the half-way house, where the horses were relieved by mules. We were hoping for half and hour on the summit, but two of our party became so faint in the rarified air that we were bundled into the wagons again and started on our downward plunge so speedily that our sojourn on the peak remains in memory hardly more than one ecstatic gaze. It was then and there, as I was looking out over the sea-like expanse of fertile country spreading away so far under those ample skies, that the opening lines of the hymn floated into my mind.

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Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. Addeddate Identifier AmericaTheBeautiful. Reviewer: Brian Pinette - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 26, Subject: Stunning! A beautiful and heartfelt rendition.