Star Spangled Banner
- Flag Facts:
Did you know that the United States flag is nicknamed the Star
Spangled Banner?
On September 13, 1814,
Francis Scott Key was on a boat in the middle of Chesapeake bay watching
as a strong battle raged all night over Fort McHenry, one of the forts
defending Baltimore. In the morning he was delighted to see te American
flag still flying over the fort. Francis penned a poem to commemorate
the occasion and it was later published with the title "Defense of
Fort M'Henry,". The poem gained so much popularity that it was
later sung to the tune "To Anacreon in Heaven." Later in 1931
Congress officially made it the national anthem of the United
States.
Here are the words to the National Anthem - The Star Spangled
Banner:
Oh, 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 thru the perilous 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.
Oh, 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! Oh 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
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory 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!
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