America the Beautiful
Two or three years ago, I don’t now remember, I wrote a hymn. I woke up Saturday morning thinking about the hymn “America the Beautiful.” It was part of my sermon preparation, on the theme of gratitude—gratitude for our native land, our home country. Before very long, I was thinking, “This hymn needs some new verses.”
The author of the hymn, Katherine Bates, also thought it needed adjustment, because the wording of the four verses as we sing them now varies significantly from the text as it was first published in 1895. She herself revised it for a 1904 publication, then again in 1910 with the text as we sing it today.
But here is what I sensed as I read and reread the lyrics: this hymn …
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