Oh, say can you see by the early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's gleaming? Whose broad stripes and stars thru the perilous fight, the ramparts 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 yet wave O'er the of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the of the deep, Where the haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the steep, As it blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the first beam, In full reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is band who so vauntingly swore That the of war and the battle's confusion, A and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the And the banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, freemen shall stand Between their loved and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued Praise the Power that hath made and us a nation. Then conquer we must, our cause it is just, And be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph wave O'er the land of the free and the of the brave!