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O say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming
And the rockets’ red glare the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
O say does that star spangled banner still wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

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O say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming
And the rockets’ red glare the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
O say does that star spangled banner still wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

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On the shore dimly seen through 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 in the stream
’Tis the spar spangled banner O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

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And where is that band which so vauntingly swore
’Mid the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country shall leave us no more
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s 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