I hope that everyone is out celebrating the 4th! Our day is filled with parades, BBQ & fireworks (hopefully the thunderstorms forecasted for tonight decide to take a detour!).
The kidlets helped us hang Old Glory out in front of our homestead this morning to help celebrate the day!
One of the things I love most about the 4th of July are the patriotic songs. We were singing them at the parade this morning. With that I’ll leave you with my favorite one. Have a great holiday!
America, The Beautiful Lyrics
By Katharine Lee Bates 1913
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!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern impassion’d stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine!
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,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
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