StoryTitle("caps", "The Star-Spangled Banner") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(114, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What so proudly we hailed, at the twilight's last gleaming —", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the rockets' 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 the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? ", "") ?>
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; Oh, 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("L2", "", "That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A home and a country should leave us no more? ", "") ?>
PagePoem(115, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "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("L2", "", " Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then conquer we must, when 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("85", SmallCapsText("—Francis Scott Key.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>