Oh, say can you see by the dawn's light What so proudly we hailed at the last gleaming? broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly And the rocket's red glare, the bursting in air, Gave proof the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled yet wave O'er the land of the free and the of the brave?
On the shore, dimly through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread reposes, What is that which the breeze, the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the first beam, In full glory reflected now in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh may it wave O'er the land of the free and the of the brave!
And where is that band who so swore That the havoc of war and the confusion, A home and a should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and From the terror of flight, or the of the grave: 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 made and preserved us a nation. Then we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our "In God is our trust." And the banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the and the home of the brave!