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, thro' the perilous
night
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the
night that our flag was still there.
CHORUS
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 thro' 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.
CHORUS
'Tis the star-spangled banner, oh, long may it wave,
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
And where is that band, that 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 washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save
the hireling and slave,
From the terror of
death and the gloom of the grave;
CHORUS
And the
star-spangled banner in triumph shall 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 foul 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,
when our cause it is just,
And this be our
motto: “In God is our trust!"
CHORUS
And the star-spangled
banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Francis Scott Key
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