Katharine Lee Bates
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"Katharine Lee Bates" was an American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". She popularized Mrs. Claus/"Mrs. Santa Claus" through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride (1889).

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O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!