In Full Glory Reflected

It's a shame that most people don't know, or recall, that The Star-Spangled Banner actually has three verses.  Singing all three would make for a very long sports prelude, it's true.  But some of the patriotic emotion is lacking.  Today on this 4th of July, please take a moment and read the entire lyrics as they were written; it's really beautiful.

Stay safe, and appreciate WHY we can enjoy this holiday.  :)

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

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red 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

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen thru 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-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave

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

Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!

Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land

Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation!

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is our trust!"

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

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

The Star-Spangled Banner

Text: Francis Scott Key, 1779-1843

Music: John Stafford Smith, 1750-1836

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