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 The Star-spangled Banner. 



By Francis Scott Key, 1814. 



I. Oh, say, can you see, "by the dawn's early light, 



\Vhat 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? 

 Md the rockets' red glare, the tombs bursting in air, 

 Save proof through the night that our flag was still there, 

 Oh, say does that star-spangled "banner yet wave 

 O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. 



