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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY America, 1780-1843 The Star-Spangled Banner1 O say, can you see, by the dawn's eaily light, What so proudly we hailed 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 s And the rocket's red glare, the'bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there. O say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave ? On that shore dimly see through the mists of the deep Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence 10 reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, 1 The song is taken as it appears in Stedman and Hutchinson's Library of American Literature, vol. iv. p. 419. The text, slightly different from the common one, corresponds to the facsimile of a copy made by Mr. Key in 1840, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream; Tis the star-spangled banner; 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 vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion B 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 10 O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. 0 thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and war's desolation Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the po...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217479943 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217479944 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 76 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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