America The Beautiful- Pikes Peak
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Dew Crew
N 38° 50.420 W 105° 02.604
13S E 496233 N 4299059
America The Beautiful was written while Katherine Lee Bates looked down from Pikes Peak.
Waymark Code: WM6BN
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 01/21/2006
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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 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 heroes prov'd
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 ev'ry gain divine.
[original lines: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 alabster 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.
~You can hike, drive, or take the cog railway up this 14,110 ft. mountain.