Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light   What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?   Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight   O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?      And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air   Gave proof thro' 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 wash'd 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 lov'd homes and the war's desolation   Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land   Praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation      Then conquer we must when our cause 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