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 Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
 What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last read more 
 Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
 What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming?
  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight
   O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
    And the rocket's 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? 
 Uncover when the flag goes by, boys,
 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,
  Flag fames in read more 
 Uncover when the flag goes by, boys,
 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,
  Flag fames in song and story
   Long may it wave, old glory
    The flag that has never known defeat. 
 Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand
 Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
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 Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand
 Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
  Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n 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 shall wave
       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 
 Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
 Harpies and Hydras.  
 Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
 Harpies and Hydras. 
 Bastard Freedom waves
 Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.  
 Bastard Freedom waves
 Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. 
 England! Whence came each glowing hue
 That hints your flag of meteor light,--
  The streaming red, the read more 
 England! Whence came each glowing hue
 That hints your flag of meteor light,--
  The streaming red, the deeper blue,
   Crossed with the moonbeams' pearly white?
    The blood, the bruise--the blue, the red--
     Let Asia's groaning millions speak;
      The white it tells of colour fled
       From starving Erin's pallid cheek. 
 Your flag and my flag,
 And how it flies today
  In your land and my land
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 Your flag and my flag,
 And how it flies today
  In your land and my land
   And half a world away!
    Rose-red and blood-red
     The stripes forever gleam;
      Snow-white and soul-white--
       The good forefathers' dream;
        Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright--
         The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night. 
 Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
 By angel hands to valour given,
  Thy stars have read more 
 Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
 By angel hands to valour given,
  Thy stars have lit the welkin dome;
   And all thy hues were born in heaven.