Time: Fri Dec 12 17:10:40 1997
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: "Star Spangled Banner" (all verses) (fwd)
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>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!
>
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