"The Star Spangled Banner," Poem, undated
The Star Spangled Banner
Oh! say, Can you see by the dawn's
earley light,
What so proudley we hailed at the
twilight's last gleaming?
Whoes stripes and bright stares, hrough
the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were
so gallantly streaming;
And the rockets red glair, the
boms bursting in air
Gave proofs through the night that
our flag was still there
Chorus
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 mist of the deep,
Whare the fows haughty hoste in dread
silence repares.
What is that which the breeze, o'er the
towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conseals,
half discloses?
Now it catches the gleaming of the
mornings first beam;
In full glory reflected, now shines
in the streams.
Corus
The star spangled banner
And whare is that band who so vauntingly
Strove) Mid the havoc of war and the
battles confusion
A home and a Country they'd leave
sees no more
There blood has washed out their
foul footsteps pollusion /
No reffuge could save the hireling
and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom
of the grave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when free men
shall stand
Between there loved homes and war's
desolation!
Blessed with victory and peace may
the heaven-rescued land
Prase the power that hath made
and preserved as a nation
Then Concur we must when our course
it is just
And this be our motto: In God is
our trust
The star spangled Banner /
When our land is illumined
by liberties smile
If a fow from within strikes a
blow at her glory
Down down with the traitor that
dares to defile
The flag of her stares and the page
of her story
By the milions enchained with
our birthright was gained
We will keep her bright blazon
forever sustained
Chorus
The star spangled banner in
triumpt shall wave
While the land of the free is
the home of the brave
End I hope
DATABASE CONTENT
| (14768) | DL1939.114 | X.1 | Other |
Tags: Music, Poetry, Unionism
People - Records: 1
- (5085) [associated with] ~ Thurston, William H.
SOURCES
"The Star Spangled Banner," Poem, undated, DL1939.114, Nau Collection
