O beautiful, my country

O beautiful, my country. Frederick Lucian Hosmer* (1840-1929). Written in 1884, and published in The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (Boston, Massachusetts, 1885), compiled by Hosmer, James Vila Blake, and William Channing Gannett*. It has frequently been reprinted, both in American and British books. In some books the first line is ‘O beautiful, our country’. In Britain it was included in The Fellowship Hymn Book (FHB, 1909, 1933), the Primitive Methodist Hymnal Supplement (1912), CP (1951), and the Unitarian Hymns for Living (HFL, 1991). It had three stanzas: O beautiful, my country!  Be thine a nobler careThan all thy wealth of commerce,  Thy harvests waving fair:Be it thy pride to...