. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . THE vSTAR-SPANGLED FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. [Written during the bombardment of Fort McHenry,below Baltimore, by the British fleet, 1814, the authorbeing at the time forcibly detained on board one ofthe British ships.—Editor.] OS AY, can you see by the dawns early light,What so proudly we hailed at the twilights lastgleaming ?Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilousfight,On the ramparts we watched were so
. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . THE vSTAR-SPANGLED FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. [Written during the bombardment of Fort McHenry,below Baltimore, by the British fleet, 1814, the authorbeing at the time forcibly detained on board one ofthe British ships.—Editor.] OS AY, can you see by the dawns early light,What so proudly we hailed at the twilights lastgleaming ?Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilousfight,On the ramparts we watched were so gallantly stream-ing ;And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was say, does the star-spangled banner yet waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave? 138 ITbe StarsSpanglcD :fiSanncr 139. On the shore dimly seen, through the mists of the deep,WTiere the foes haughty host in dread silence reposes, \\liat is that which the breeze, oer the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses ? Now it catches the gleam of the mornings first beam. In full glory reflected now shines on the is the star-spangled banner ! O long may it waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave ! I40 Zbc star-spangled JSanncr And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battles confusion A home and a country shall leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps pollu-tion. No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of death and the gloom of the the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave ! O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the wars desolation ; Blest with victry and peace, may the heaven-rescue
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