![]() ![]() His music was originally written for the hymn “O Mother Dear, Jerusalem. People sang it to various tunes that the lyrics fit, even “Auld Ang Syne.” It was subsequently published with the tune “Materna.” This is the music for “America the Beautiful” by Samuel A. Twice she revised it, once in 1904, again in 1913. The original poem was printed in a weekly journal on July 4, 1895, two years after she composed it. Referral to the alabaster cities in the fourth stanza was inspired by the White City at the World’s Exposition in Chicago, which she had visited earlier. Before she left the state, she jotted four stanzas in a notebook. O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain America God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to. She wrote that all of fertile country spreading away so far under ample skies the wonder of America was displayed there, out over the sea-like expanse spreading away so far under those ample skies. O Beautiful For Heroes Proved In Liberating Strife, Who More Than Self Their Country Loved, And Mercy More Than Life America. Although by then she was tired, she was awed by the view before her. 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. They left the wagon near the top and finished the trip on mules. Bates upon her return from her first trip to the summit of Pikes Peak where the opening lines had been inspired by the beautiful view of 'spacious skies' and 'purple mountain majesties'. ![]() ![]() I had read that on the day she was inspired, she and some others on an excursion had engaged a prairie wagon to take them to the summit. O beautiful for halcyon skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the enameled plain America America. One Sunday morning when I was among a congregation, singing the beautiful song, I wondered about her inspiration to capture her feelings on paper. In 1926, there was even an unsuccessful drive to replace it with the “Star-Spangled Banner” as the National Anthem. ![]()
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