The Star Spangled Banner sung by Sandi Patty. <br /><br />Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, <br />What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? <br />Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, <br />O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? <br />And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, <br />Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. <br />O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave <br />O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? <br /><br />On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep, <br />Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, <br />What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, <br />As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? <br /><br />Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, <br />In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: <br />'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave <br />O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! <br />Flag draped from the roof of the Pentagon <br /><br />And where is that band who so vauntingly swore <br />That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion <br />A home and a country should leave us no more? <br />Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. <br />No refuge could save the hireling and slave <br />From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: <br />And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave <br />O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. <br /><br />O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, <br />Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation; <br />Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land <br />Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation! <br />Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, <br />And this be our motto: "In God is our trust" <br />And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave <br />O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
