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tetedur

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1. I always like these verses but you don't hear them sung a lot

Reply to Collimator (Original post)

Thu Jul 4, 2019, 12:01 PM

Jul 2019

Oh, beautiful for heroes proved
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.

Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

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A Little Revisionist Song Re-Write, Here. . . [View all] Collimator Jul 2019 OP

I always like these verses but you don't hear them sung a lot tetedur Jul 2019 #1

Thank you for your reply. . . Collimator Jul 2019 #2