O' say can you see, by the dawns early light?
what so proudly we hailed, at the twighlights last gleaming?
whos broad stripes and bright stars, through the parolus fights,
O'er the Rampage we watched, were so gallently streaming,
and the rockets last 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?
for the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
- John Stafford Smith