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 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. 
 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. 
 Ye mariners of England!
 That guard our native seas;
  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,
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 Ye mariners of England!
 That guard our native seas;
  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,
   The battle and the breeze! 
 If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on 
the spot.  
 If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on 
the spot. 
 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. 
 Nail to the mast her holy flag,
 Set every threadbare sail,
  And give her to the God read more 
 Nail to the mast her holy flag,
 Set every threadbare sail,
  And give her to the God of storms,
   The lightning and the gale. 
 When Freedom from her mountain height
 Unfurled her standard to the air,
  She tore the azure robe read more 
 When Freedom from her mountain height
 Unfurled her standard to the air,
  She tore the azure robe of night,
   And set the stars of glory there. 
 Bastard Freedom waves
 Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.  
 Bastard Freedom waves
 Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.