2025-2026 Parent Handbook FINAL - Flipbook - Page 74
America
My country, 8tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing!
Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims9 pride;
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
My native country, thee, land of the noble free, thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills, like that above.
Let music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees, Sweet freedom9s song;
Let mortal tongues awake, let all that breathe partake, Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.
Our fathers9 God, to Thee, author of liberty, to Thee we sing! Long may our land be bright, with freedom9s holy
light, Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King.
-Rev. Samuel Francis Smith
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 of freedom bear across the wilderness. America! America! God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm they 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 thy 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.
-Katherine Lee Bat
