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STAR SPANGLED BANNER written: 1814 by: Francis
Scott Key a 35 year old lawyer, after seeing the bombing of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by Brittish ships
in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812.
O 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, through 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;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er
the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mist of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread
silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals,
half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the
stream
’Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of
the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A
home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could
save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in
triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall
stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation,
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n-rescued
land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And
this be our motto: "In God is our Trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land
of the free and the home of the brave.
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