America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
– Katharine Lee Bates
It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
– Katharine Lee Bates
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
– Katharine Lee Bates
O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!
– Katharine Lee Bates
They shall not pass till the stars be darkened; two swords crossed in front of the Hun, never a groan but God has harkened, counting their cruelties one by one.