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2016.06.30 18:20
Katharine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful
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Emanuel Leutze (1816–1868 ), Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas.
Location: The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery #760 Photo: Sukie Park/NYCultureBeat
America the Beautiful
(*original title: Pikes Peak)
Katharine Lee Bates (1893)
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife,
When once or twice, for man's avail,
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain,
The banner of the free!
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
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
캐서린 리 베이츠 Katharine Lee Bates (1859 –1929)
매사추세츠 팔머스에서 목사의 딸로 태어나 웰슬리대를 졸업했다. 고등학교 교사를 거쳐 웰슬리대에서 영문학 석사학위를 받은 후 옥스포드대에서 수학했다. 웰슬리대 영문과 교수로 지내면서 시, 여행서, 어린이 도서를 출간했다. 1983년엔 훗날 미 애국가처럼 사랑받게될 시 'America the Beautiful'(작곡 Samuel A. Ward)을 썼다. 웰슬리대 경제학부를 창설한 캐서린 코만(Katharine Coman)이 1915년 유방암으로 사망할 때까지 25년간 동거했다.
Emanuel Leutze (1816–1868 ), Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas.
Location: The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery #760 Photo: Sukie Park/NYCultureBeat
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