Sunday, November 2, 2025

Purple Mountain Majesty

In 1893, while visiting Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to "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 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

America! America! 
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea


There are many mornings when I see exactly what she was talking about with the purple mountain majesties out my bathroom window.