America the Beautiful Card

Okay, my mom says I don't need my cute blue eyed puppy mug in every picture so here's one without my handsome irresistible face in it. Of course, if you too are taken with my appealing teenage looks, there is one available with me in it in my gallery! I’m known as the ‘big kahuna’ in the animal world or rather the ‘top dog’. But when it comes to nature’s ‘big kahuna’, the grand poobah, the head honcho, the big enchilada, or the big cheese, it’s that breathtaking mountain called Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, CO. You know the one, it’s the mountain that Kathy Bates wrote the song “America the Beautiful” from while going to the summit and seeing all the way from Colorado to Kansas! So, here’s a picture of her majesty, in all her splendour, without me in it. I just know, no one is going to like it as much. – Kahuna Luna There are 8 verses altogether to the song, “America the Beautiful”. Some are the same but were edited by a few lines. Which verse do you like the best? 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. O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare of freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine 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 their 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. 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!