The song “America the Beautiful” was based on a poem written by professor, poet, and writer Katharine Lee Bates during an 1893 trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado. When she got to the top of Pike’s Peak, the view was so beautiful that it inspired her to write “All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse.”
The poem that Bates wrote first appeared in print in The Congrega-tionalist, a weekly journal, on July 4, 1895. Within a few months it was set to music by Silas G. Pratt. Bates revised the song in 1904 after receiving many requests to use it in publications and special services. An additional change was made to the wording of the third verse in 1913 to give us the version we know today. The song is considered by many to be the unofficial national anthem of the United States.
Wishing all my friends and family who are celebrating today a very happy and safe 4th of July.
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