Από την Κρήτη εθελοντής στον Αμερικανικό Στρατό., item 80

• November 1, 2018 07:46:01 Zafiro Marti

        THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER

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  Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light.

     What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last

         gleaming,

  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thro the clouds

        of the fight,

  O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly

      streaming?

  And the rockets’ red glare,

  The bombs bursting in air,

  Gave proof thro’ the night that our tlag 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?

  
  

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  On the shore dimly seen thro5 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-sptangled banner, oh long may it wave

       O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave !

  
  

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  And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

      Mid 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 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.

  
  

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  Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
  

  
  

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