I Have a Dream

This is MY America
This is YOUR America
This is OUR America.
YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN.
Let us roll up our sleeves and begin the work which is before us. The work of reclaiming the Dream. The work of reclaiming the Love, the Pride, the HOPE.
WE ARE WHO WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
America the Beautiful
(lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates;
music composed by Samuel A. Ward --
more history on the poem and music)
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 impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov'd
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 ev'ry 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.
The Dream

Today, for the first time in a long long while, I am truly deeply madly Proud to be an American.


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