| Lyrics: | Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed 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.
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, now conceals, now 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! 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
should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped 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.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved
homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued
land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for
our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled
banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the |
