O! say can you see by the dawns early
light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilights
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 Rockets' 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?
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, o'er 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.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, shall leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
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.
O! thus be it ever when freemen shall
stand,
Between their lov'd home, and the war's desolation,
blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heavn's
rescued land,
Praise the Power that hath made and preserv'd
us a nation!
Then 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.
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