Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929 / United States)

''O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!''
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), U.S. author. America the Beautiful (l. 17-20). . . Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company.
''O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!''
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), U.S. author. America the Beautiful (l. 1-4). . . Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company.

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