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THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.• ( • , '' BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.O-say, can you see, by the dawn's early light.What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming—Whose broad stripes and bright stars,, through the clouds of the fight, ■O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming!And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,■Gave proof through the night that our , flag was still there; lt;© say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave iO’er the land of the free and the home . ■ of the brave?V • 1 .On that 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, now conceals, now j , discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,In full glory reflected now shines on the stream;’Tis the star-spangled tanner; 0 long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!And where is that band who so vaunt-ingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusionA home jnd a country should leave us no more?Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.:No refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight or the gloom. of the grave; ;And the star-spangled banner in trl- ' umph doth wave ]O’er tho land of the free and the homeof the brave. ;O! thus be It ever, when freemen shall ;stand 1Between their loved homes and the ! \ war’s desolation! 1Blest with victory and peace, may the ' heav’n-rescued land• . * . 4Praise the power that hath made and • , preserved us a nation. 1Then conquer we must, when our cause 1• . ry* It is just, . lt;And this be our motto—“In God is our 1; trust!”And the staT-spangled banner in tri- 1* . umph shall wave * 'O'er tho land of the free and the home *of the brave. i
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Buffalo Center Tribune
Buffalo Center, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 08, 1897
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Paul E.
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