~Our hearts are broken but not our spirits~


"God Bless America"


God bless America, land that I love.

Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above.

From the mountains to the prairies,
to the ocean white with foam..

God bless America, my home sweet home.
God bless America, my home sweet home.

God bless America, land that I love.

Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above.

From the mountains to the prairies,
to the ocean white with foam..

God bless America, my home sweet home.
God bless America, my home sweet home!


Words and Music by Irving Berlin

Recorded in 1939 by Kate Smith..





"America The Beautiful"
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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 sterm impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for 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 the 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!

Written by Katharine Lee Bates
"1913"






"To My Home"

Sept. 2001