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America the Beautiful
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 impassion'd stress
A thorough-fare 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 heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country lov'd
And mercy more than 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.
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God Bless America
God Bless America,
Land that I love
Stand beside her,
And guide her,
Through the night
With the light from above,
From the mountains,
To the prairies,
To the ocean,
White with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
God bless America,
My home sweet home. |
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Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mine eyes have seen the glory
Of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage
Where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning
Of His terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on. |
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I pledge Allegiance to the flag,
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty, and Justice for all. |
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The Star Spangled Banner
By Francis Scott Key
Oh, say can you see by the
dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the
twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright
stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the
bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled
banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and
the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the
mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in
dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er
the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals,
half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the
morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines
in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh
long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the
home of the brave!
And where is that band who so
vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the
battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave
us no more!
Their blood has washed out their
foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling
and slave
From the terror of flight, or the
gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in
triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the
home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when
freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the
war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace,
may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made
and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our
cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In
God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in
triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and
the home of the brave! |
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