Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early What so proudly we hailed at the last gleaming? Whose broad and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bursting 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 through the mists of the deep, Where the haughty host in dread silence reposes, is that 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 reflected now shines in the 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it O'er the land of the and the home of the brave!
And where is that who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the confusion, A and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul pollution. No could save the hireling and slave From the of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph wave O'er the of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall Between loved home and the war's desolation! Blest victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, our cause it is just, And be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the of the brave!