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Katharine Lee Bates is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful Bates was born in Falmouth Massachusetts and lived as an adult on Centre Street in Newton Massachusetts An historic plaque marks the site of her home The daughter of a Congregational pastor she graduated from Wellesley College in 1880 and for many years was a professor of English literature at Wellesley While teaching there she was elected a member of the newly formed Pi Gamma Mu honor society for the social sciences because of her interest in history and politics for which she also studied She lived at Wellesley with Katharine Coman who herself was a history and political economy teacher and founder of the Wellesley College Economics department The pair lived together for twenty-five years until Comans death in 1915 It is debated if this relationship was an intimate lesbian relationship as different sources maintain or a platonic relationship called sometimes Boston marriages as the local historical society of her birthplace maintain

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America the Beautiful
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Babushka
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Around The Sun
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The Sunset, Woven Of Soft Lights
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Starlight At Sea
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Not Yet
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NIght And Morning
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New Year
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Freedom's Battle-Song
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A Mountain Storm
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The Creed Of The Wood
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Don't You See?
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The Morning Paper
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Wings
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The Perfect Day
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The Lighthouse
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Our First Families
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His Bit
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Yellow Warblers
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If You Could Come
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Only Mules
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Three Steps
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To Peace
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Northward
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In August
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Our First War-Christmas
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Mist
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How Long?
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Shakespeare's Festival
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Matthew Arnold On hearing him read his Poems in Boston
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My Lady Of Whims
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The Little Knight in Green
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When Cap'n Tom Comes Home
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Mother
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Apollo Laughs
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The Horses
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Playmates
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Wild Europe
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George Macdonald
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War Profits
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The German-American
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Eavesdropping
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Man Overboard
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Russia
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To Canada
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In A Northern Wood
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Graves At Christiania
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April In September
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Above the Battle
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New Roads
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At Stonehenge
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In The Oak
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This Tattered Catechism
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Glory
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The Death Of Olaf Tryggvision
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The Red Cross Nurse
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To My Country
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What Is Christ?
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Our President
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Robin’s Secret
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Yellow Clover
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The Thracian Stone
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To Our President
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The End Of May
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White Moments
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Pigeon Post
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To Heavy Hearts
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The Presence Chamber
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The Titanic
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Lydd
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The Falmouth Bell
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Anniversary hymn
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Fodder for Cannon
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Soldiers To Pacifists
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America to England
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England to America
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Our Crown Of Praise
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To Italy
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Waywise
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The Purple Thread
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Two centuries
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The New Crusade
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Beyond
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When The Millennium Comes
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Pity of It, The
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Blood Road
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The Conqueror
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The Submarine That Sank The
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Spain
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Great Twin Brethren, The
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Marching Feet
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Children Of The War
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A Song Of Riches
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The U-Boat Crew
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The Least Of These
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The First Bluebirds
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Jerusalem
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Out Of Siberia
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The Pity of It
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