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A revised version of the poem was published in the Boston Evening Transcript in 1904, and yet another was included as the first poem in Bates’s 1912 book, America The Beautiful and other Poems » https://archive.org/details/americabeautiful00baterich/page/n5/mode/2up The patriotic song United Statesians know as “America the Beautiful” was created by Boston publisher Oliver Dotson & Co. in 1910 who set Bates’s amended poem to 1882 hymn tune “Materna”, by New Jersey-based organist-choirmaster Samuel A. Ward. Bates and Ward never met. 🧵