STAR SPANGLED BANNER  

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1. O! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
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    what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming:
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    Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
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    o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
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    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
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    gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
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    O! say, does that Star-spangled Banner still wave ---
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    o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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2. On the shore, dimly seen,  through the mists of the deep
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    where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes.
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    What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
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    as it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
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    Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, 
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    in full glory reflected, now shines on the stream.
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    'Tis the Star-spangled Banner, O! long may it wave -
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    o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

 

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3. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
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    that the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
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    a home and a country should leave us no more?
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    Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
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    No refuge could save,  the hireling and slave.
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    From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave!
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    And the Star-spangled Banner in triumph doth wave,
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    o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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4. O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand
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    between their loved homes and the foe's desolation.
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    Bless'd with victory and peace, may our Heaven-rescued land
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    praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
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    Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
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    and this be our motto -- "In God is our trust!"
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    And the Star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
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    o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

                                (Francis Scott Key)


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