{"id":966,"date":"2017-01-13T22:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=966"},"modified":"2017-01-13T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:03:53","slug":"the-star-spangled-banner-the-defense-of-fort-mchenry-september-20-1814-by-francis-scott-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"The Star Spangled Banner (The Defense of Fort McHenry) September 20, 1814 By Francis Scott Key"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Star Spangled Banner <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Star Spangled Banner<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\n<\/a>

(The Defense of Fort McHenry)<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/a>

September 20, 1814<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/a>

By Francis Scott Key<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
\nWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
\nO’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
\nAnd the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
\nGave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
\nO say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/span><\/p>\n

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
\nWhere the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
\nWhat is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
\nAs it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
\nIn full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
\n‘Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/span><\/p>\n

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
\nThat the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
\nA home and a country should leave us no more?
\nTheir blood has wiped out their foul footstep’s pollution.
\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave
\nFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
\nBetween their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
\nBlest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
\nPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
\nThen conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
\nAnd this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
\nAnd the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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