Oh say, can you see

By the dawn's early light

What so proudly we held

at the twilight's last gleaming

Whose broad stripes and bright stars

Through the perilous fight

O'er the ramparts we watched

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

Oh 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 on the stream.

`Tis the Star-Spangled Banner,

Oh long may it wave

O'er the land of the free

and the home of the brave.