StoryTitle("caps", "The Star-Spangled Banner") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On that shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?", "") ?>
PagePoem(32, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In full glory reflected now shines on the stream;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And where is that band who so vauntingly swore", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A home and a country should leave us no more?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps, pollution.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No refuge could save the hireling and slave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And this be our motto—\"In God is our trust\":", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Francis Scott Key.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>