"The lyrics were written in 1894 by the Massachusetts poet Katharine Lee Bates, an ardent feminist and lesbian who was deeply disillusioned by the greed and excess of the Gilded Age.
"Her original third verse was an expression of that anger."
David Firestone at The New York Times warns Mitt Romney away from quoting "America the Beautiful" in campaign speeches.
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