America the Beautiful Revisited | Poem

America the Beautiful Revisited
 

O beautiful metallic skies,
For stem cell waves of grain,
For carved-up mountain majesties
Above bisonless plain!
America! America!
We shed our waste on thee
And lose thy good of brotherhood
From sea - polluted sea!

O politicians' obsolete,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare to serfdom beat
Destroyed wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self control,
Consuming at the mall!

O beautiful for homeless proved
In liberating life,
Who more than self compassion loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy love refine,
Till all success be humbleness,
And every life divine!

O beautiful for humankind dream
That sees beyond the tears
Thine alabaster cities fall
So dimmed by human fears!
America! America!
God shed Her grace on thee
And seeks thy good with humanhood
From north, south, east and west!

- Thomas Henry

to Thomas   /   to Moongate

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