Oh, say can you see by the dawn's light so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs in air, proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the
On the shore, dimly seen through the of the deep, Where the foe's host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half Now it catches the gleam of the morning's beam, In glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it O'er the land of the free and the of the brave!
And is that 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 foul pollution. No refuge save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the of the grave: 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 shall stand Between their home and the war's desolation! Blest with and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power hath made and preserved us a nation. conquer 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!