The Star-Spangled Banner

 

O say can you see,

by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d

at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars

through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d

were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare,

the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night

that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled

banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free

and the home of the brave?

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On the shore

dimly seen

through the mists

of the deep

Where the foe’s

haughty host

in dread silence

reposes,

What is that

which the breeze,

or the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows,

half conceals,

half discloses?

Now it catches

the gleam

of the morning’s

first beam,

In full glory

reflected

now shines

in the stream,

’Tis the star-

spangled banner -

O long

may it wave

O’er the land

of the free

and the home

of the brave!

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And where

is that band

who so

vauntingly swore,
That the havoc

of war

and the battle’s

confusion
A home and

a Country

should leave us

no more?
Their blood has

wash’d out

their foul footstep’s

pollution.

No refuge

could save

the hireling

and slave
From the terror

of flight

or the gloom

of the grave,
And the star-

spangled banner

in triumph

doth wave
O’er the land

of the free

and the home

of the brave.

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thus

be it ever

when freemen

shall stand
Between their

L ov' em'

and the war’s

desolation!

Bless'd  victory

and peace

may the heav’n

rescued land
Praise the power

that has made

and preserv’d

us a nation!

That conquer

we must,

when our cause

it is just,
And this be

our motto -

“In God is

our trust,”
 

And the star

spangled banner

in triumph

shall wave
O’er the land

of the free

and the home

of the brave.