The Star Spangled Banner
By Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)

Oh, say can you see              
by the dawn’s early light

what so proudly we hailed
at the twilight’s last gleaming?  
                                                                                                            
Whose broad stripes and bright stars  
thru the perilous fight,  
o’er the ramparts we watched       
were so gallantly streaming?         

And the rockets’ red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there.      

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave    

O’er the land of the free  
And the home of the brave?

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