O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

- Katharine Lee Bates

It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

- Katharine Lee Bates

0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace o…

- Katharine Lee Bates

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

- Katharine Lee Bates

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

- Katharine Lee Bates

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

- Katharine Lee Bates

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

- Katharine Lee Bates

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

- Katharine Lee Bates

O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than…

- Katharine Lee Bates