Later she remembered: One day some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. Within a few months, it was set to music by Silas G. Pratt. She wrote down the words after returning to her hotel room. Today, "America the Beautiful" is sung to Samuel A. Ward’s "Materna.”. For years after "America the Beautiful" was written, it was sung to popular or folk tunes that would fit with the lyrics; "Auld Lang Syne" was the most popular of these tunes. The song, “America the Beautiful," was based on a poem written by the professor, poet, and writer, Katharine Lee Bates, during an 1893 trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado. "America the Beautiful": The Poem . “America, the Beautiful” facts and figures: To learn more, see the Library of Congress site. Bates was a teacher, poet, and author of several books including America the Beautiful and Other Poems which was published in 1911. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse. The poem that Bates wrote first appeared in print in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, on July 4, 1895. A hymn tune composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. 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 “America the Beautiful” was inspired by the view from the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado. Ward in 1882 was first published with Bates’ poem in 1910 as “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 impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat, across the wilderness America, America, God mend thine every flaw Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law, O beautiful for heroes proved, in liberating strife Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life America, America, May God they gold refine Till all success be nobleness, and every 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. Ward in 1882 was first published with Bates’ poem in 1910 as “America the Beautiful.” Lyrics. When she got to the top of Pike’s Peak, the view was so beautiful that it inspired her to write, "All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse." In 1893, at the age of 33, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College. preserving and celebrating music from America's diverse cultural history. America!God shed His grace on thee,And crown thy good with brotherhoodFrom sea to shining sea! We hired a prairie wagon. In the summer of 1893, poet Katharine Lee Bates was teaching English at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A hymn tune composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. When she got to the top of Pike’s Peak, the view was so beautiful that it inspired her to write, "All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse.". Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the "White City" with its promise of the future contained within its gleaming white buildings; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16… On the pinnacle of the mountain a poem started to come to her. I was very tired. The words of this song came from a poem of the same title by Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929).

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