{"id":130435,"date":"2024-07-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130435"},"modified":"2024-07-04T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:49:10","slug":"the-full-text-of-americas-national-anthem-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130435","title":{"rendered":"The Full Text of America\u2019s National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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O! say can you see by the dawn\u2019s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight\u2019s last gleaming.
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O\u2019er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets\u2019 red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe\u2019s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o\u2019er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning\u2019s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O\u2019er 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\u2019s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps\u2019 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\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war\u2019s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav\u2019n 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.\u2019
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

–Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)<\/p>

Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸🎆🇮🇹#IndependenceDay<\/a> #Independenceday2024<\/a> #4LuglioUSA<\/a> #July4th<\/a> #4luglio<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/hhLRAlpS2V<\/a><\/p>— Ambasciata U.S.A. (@AmbasciataUSA) July 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>