title: America the Beautiful
text: # America the Beautiful
  
  America the Beautiful è un inno patriottico statunitense, pubblicata inizialmente come poesia scritta da Katharine Lee Bates nel 1895, e successivamente arrangiata su musiche di Samuel A. Ward nel 1910. Si tratta di uno degli inni patriottici più popolari in America. Viene usata per introdurre importanti eventi sportivi quali Super Bowl e WrestleMania.
  
  ## Parole
  
  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 beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy 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!
  
  