Time: Fri Dec 12 17:10:40 1997 To: From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: "Star Spangled Banner" (all verses) (fwd) Cc: Bcc: sls References: <snip> > >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 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. >Oh, 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 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 victory and peace, may the heaven-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 doth wave, >O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! > <snip>
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