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Text: | O Beautiful, My Country |
Author: | Frederick L. Hosmer |
Tune: | SALVE DOMINE |
Composer: | Lawrence W. Watson |
1 O beautiful, my country!
Be thine a nobler care
Than all thy wealth of commerce,
Thy harvests waving fair;
Be it thy pride to lift up
The manhood of the poor;
Be thou to the oppressed
Fair Freedom's open door.
2 For thee our fathers suffered,
For thee they toiled and prayed;
Upon thy holy altar
Their willing lives they laid;
Thou hast no common birthright,
Grand memories on thee shine;
The blood of pilgrim nations
Commingled flows in thine.
3 O beautiful, our country!
Round thee in love we draw;
Thine is the grace of freedom,
The majesty of law:
Be righteousness thy sceptre,
Justice thy diadem;
And on thy shining forehead
Be peace the crowning gem.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O beautiful, my country! |
Title: | O Beautiful, My Country |
Author: | Frederick L. Hosmer |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Publication Date: | 1936 |
Topic: | Our Country |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SALVE DOMINE |
Composer: | Lawrence W. Watson |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Key: | G Major |