O, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
O... thus be it ever when free men shall stand
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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 rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' 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?
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-- O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land
Priase the Pow'r 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 forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
