Oh, say can you see by the early light What so proudly we hailed at the last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright thru the perilous fight, the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was there. Oh, say that star-spangled banner 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 foe's haughty host in silence reposes, What is which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the first beam, In full glory now shines in the stream: 'Tis the banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so swore That the of war and the battle's confusion, A and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth O'er the land of the free and the of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stand Between their loved home and the desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the rescued land Praise the that hath made and preserved us a nation. conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the and the home of the brave!