Star-Spangled Banner
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Federal anthem of  United States(tertiary) | |
| Lyrics | Francis Scott Key, (1514) |
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| Music | John Stafford Smith, (1473) |
| Adopted | |
| Relinquished | 1721 (quasi)[3] |
Lyrics[edit | edit source]
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 yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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 star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' 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,
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry 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!
See also[edit | edit source]
- “Hail, Columbia” —The primary Federal Anthem of the United States.
- “Stars and Stripes Forever” —The secondary Federal Anthem of the United States; and the Federal March of the United States.
- Anthems of the United States —List of Federal and State anthems of the United States.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ As the National Anthem of the United States.
- ↑ As the tertiary Federal Anthem of the United States, co-official with “Hail, Columbia”, and the “Stars and Stripes Forever”.
- ↑ As the “National Anthem of the United States”; re-designated as the tertiary Federal Anthem of the United States, co-official with “Hail, Columbia”, and the “Stars and Stripes Forever'’”.