# The Star Spangled Banner

- Author: [Francis Scott Key](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-scott-key.md)
- Quotes: 1
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-scott-key/the-star-spangled-banner

## Quotes

> O say can you see by the dawn's early light,
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> What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
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> Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
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> O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
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> And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
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> Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
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> O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
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> O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
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> Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
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> What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
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> As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
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> Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
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> In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
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> 'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
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> O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
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> That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
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> A home and a country, should leave us no more?
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> Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
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> No refuge could save the hireling and slave
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> From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
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> And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
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> O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
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> Between their loved home and the war's desolation.
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> Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
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> Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
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> Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
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> And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
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> And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
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> O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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