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- o say! can you see,
- by the dawn's early light,
- what so proudly we hail'd
- at the twilight's last gleaming,
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- whose broad stripes and bright stars
- thro' the perilous fight,
- o'er the ramparts we watch'd
- were so gallantly streaming?
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- and the rockets red glare,
- the bombs bursting in air,
- gave proof thro' the night
- that our flag was still there.
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- o, say, does that star-spangled
- banner yet wave
- o'er the land of the free
- and the home of the brave?
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- on the shore, dimly seen thro' the
- mists of the deep,
- 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,
- as it fitfully blows,
- half conceals, half discloses?
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- now it catches the gleam
- of the morning's first beam,
- in full glory reflected
- now shines on the stream;
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- 'tis the star-spangled banner,
- o long may it wave
- o'er the land of the free
- and the home of the brave?
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- o thus be it ever
- when free man shall stand
- between their loved homes
- and the war's desolation!
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- blest with vict'ry and peace,
- may the heav'n-rescued land
- praise the pow'r that hath made
- and preserved us a nation.
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- then conquer we must,
- for our cause it is just,
- and this be our motto:
- "in god is our trust."
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- and the star-spangled banner
- in triumph shall wave
- o'er the land of the free
- and the home of the brave?
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