July 22 – Anniversary of an Anthem

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nOnnthis date in 1893, a 33-year-old woman took a carriage ride up PikesnPeak in Colorado. The last six miles to the summit of the mountainnshe and her travel

ncompanions traversed by burro. They stood at thentop and looked down all around…
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Pikes Peak, seen above Garden of the Gods

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Garden of the Gods (above AND below)

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nOnbeautiful for halcyon skies,
Fornamber waves of grain,
Fornpurple mountain majesties
Aboventhe enameled plain!
America!nAmerica!

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Halcyon skies!

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Godnshed His grace on thee,
Tillnsouls wax fair as earth and air
Andnmusic-hearted sea!

Onbeautiful for pilgrim feet
Whosenstern, impassioned stress
Anthoroughfare for freedom beat
Acrossnthe wilderness!
America!nAmerica!
Godnshed His grace on thee
Tillnpaths be wrought through wilds of thought
Bynpilgrim foot and knee!

Onbeautiful for glory-tale
Ofnliberating strife,
Whennonce or twice, for man’s avail,
Mennlavished precious life!
America!nAmerica!
Godnshed His grace on thee
Tillnselfish gain no longer stain,
Thenbanner of the free!

Onbeautiful for patriot dream
Thatnsees beyond the years
Thinenalabaster cities gleam
Undimmednby human tears!
America!nAmerica!
Godnshed His grace on thee
Tillnnobler men keep once again
Thynwhiter jubilee!

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The fruited plains!

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From sea to shining sea!

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Onbeautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
Anthoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America!nAmerica!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul innself-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroesnproved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their countrynloved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May Godnthy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gainndivine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond thenyears
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by humanntears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Andncrown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
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• Bates’s poem was first published on Independence Day 1895.

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• The music was written separately, by a man named Samuel Ward, in 1882.

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• The poem and music were put together and published as “America, the Beautiful” in 1910.

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nCasualnPi Day

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nBirthdaynof the king of Swaziland
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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in July

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in August

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