![]() That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,Ī home and a country, should leave us no more? And where is that band who so vauntingly swore O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,Īs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, ![]() Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, A line in the final stanzas is comparable to "It made and preserves us a nation" in The Flag of our Union by George Pope Morris.Ĭontext: O say can you see by the dawn's early light,
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