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The Star.Spangled Banner 0 SAY, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hafl'd at the twfiight's last gl?tmin? ? Whose broad stripez and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, (Yet the ramparts we watched were so gu!!a?tly streaming; .Stud the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our tiag 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 mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread -?ilence repose?. 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-- 'Tls the star-spangled banner. O long may it wave O'er the land cf the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, 'Mid the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country they'd leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. ? 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 shall wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and foul wars desolation, Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the hcav'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 sLur-spangled banner in triumph shall wave, While the land of the free is the home of the brave. ? F?tmcis Scott Key, xSx4.