July 22 – Anniversary of an Anthem

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ncompanions traversed by burro. They stood at thentop and looked down all around…
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Pikes Peak, seen above Garden of the Gods

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Garden of the Gods (above AND below)

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The fruited plains!

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From sea to shining sea!

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Onbeautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
Anthoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America!nAmerica!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul innself-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroesnproved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their countrynloved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May Godnthy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gainndivine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond thenyears
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by humanntears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Andncrown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
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• Bates’s poem was first published on Independence Day 1895.

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• The music was written separately, by a man named Samuel Ward, in 1882.

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• The poem and music were put together and published as “America, the Beautiful” in 1910.

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