Massachusetts poet Katharine Lee Bates wrote 'America the Beautiful' after seeing the landscape from the top of Pike's Peak. Her patriotic anthem is a prayer for national unity.
Patriotic poet Katharine Lee Bates was born and raised on Cape Cod, a narrow wisp of seaside sand where the only elevation comes from dunes that shift with wind and tide. Later a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Bates traveled 2,000 miles across the vast continent to teach in Colorado in the summer of 1893. She was stunned by the eternal solidity of the Rocky Mountains and inspired almost instantly to record the incredible experience of seeing the United States from new heights.
The tragedy of the Civil War lingered over Bates' life. The little fishing town of Falmouth, then numbering just 2,500 residents, lost 19 men in the war. She was just five years old when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Yet she remembered the grief the rest of her life — her mother's tears and her widow's black shawl hung in mourning at their church. 'The nation's sorrow, I felt my sorrow,' Bates wrote years later of the childhood memory.
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