Oh, say can you see by the early light What so we hailed at the twilight's 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 through the that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, conceals, half discloses? Now it the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it O'er the land of the and the home of the brave!
And is that band who so vauntingly swore the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A and a country should leave us no more! Their has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the And the star-spangled banner in doth wave O'er the land of the and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, freemen shall stand their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued Praise the Power that hath 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!