| Amount of texts to »song« | 31, and there are 31 texts (100.00%) with a rating above the adjusted level (-3) |
| Average lenght of texts | 461 Characters |
| Average Rating | 2.065 points, 6 Not rated texts |
| First text | on Jun 15th 2000, 13:23:09 wrote maike about song |
| Latest text | on Aug 3rd 2007, 13:01:14 wrote Werner about song |
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on Sep 24th 2001, 05:30:53 wrote
on Aug 3rd 2007, 13:01:14 wrote
on Sep 12th 2000, 15:00:41 wrote |
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Just a song at twilight
When the lights are low
And the flickering shadows
Softly come and go.
Though the heart be weary
Sad the day and long
Still to us at twilight
Comes love's old sweet song.
~~~
America! The Beautiful
(Katharine Lee Bates, T:1893, 1859-1929
Samuel Augustus Ward, M:»Materna«1882, 1848-1903)
1. 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!
2. Whose stem impassioned – stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend shine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul
In self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
3. O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success
Be nobleness
And every gain divine!
4. 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!
5. 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!
6. O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem 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!
7. O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and 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!
8(4). 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!
To sailors, all nature is brimming with grand
Ideas – with thought and emotion;
I pity the dunces who can't understand
The song of the earth, sky and ocean.
'Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low'. Pity they didn't remember that Victorian line in 1914. Instead, 'the lights went out all over Europe' (as unmusically remarked by Lord Grey) and a war of hatred and horror began. No songs, no tenderness – »And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds« (Wilfred Owen – dead in the trenches).
I cannot sing the song of the humpback whale or dance the dance of the bees, but no matter. I know who I am.
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