My Country, From Sea To Shining Sea!
"From sea to shining sea" is an American idiom meaning from the Pacific
Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. The words are by Katharine Lee Bates, an
English professor at Wellesley College. In 1893, Bates had taken a train
trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session
at Colorado College, and several of the sights on her trip found their
way into her poem.
The Poem, First Verse
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!
...and the rest of this beautiful poem...
May God bless him and all other persons serving in our military forces who risk their lives in order to preserve and defend the God-given rights of all ~ "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" ~ which we may exercise freely as citizens of a truly great nation:
The United States of America!!
