Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early What so we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the red glare, the bombs bursting in air, proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet O'er the land of the free and the home of the
On the shore, dimly seen through the of the deep, Where the foe's haughty in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the first beam, In glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the of the free and the home of the brave!
And is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the confusion, A home and a should leave us no more! Their blood has out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could the hireling and slave the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the banner in triumph doth wave the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall Between their home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n land Praise the that hath made and preserved us a nation. conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph wave the land of the free and the home of the brave!