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New to WikiSource, but I am familure with research and will attempt to do my best to document the changes in the discussion pages of anything I change, before I change the main page and give sources for each of the changes as I do them. FemVoice 04:23, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner


 * Verse 1
 * O 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, through the perilous fight,
 * O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming!
 * And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
 * Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
 * O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
 * O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?


 * Verse 2
 * 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 on the stream:
 * 'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
 * O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


 * Verse 3
 * 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!


 * Verse 4
 * O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
 * Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
 * Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-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!