![]() O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Click here to sign up for our newsletter. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,Īnd this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standīetween their loved home and the war’s desolation!īlest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n rescued land No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave ![]() Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. Spouse(s) Elizabeth Lloyd Harwood 1808 - 1902. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusionĪ home and a country should leave us no more! Francis Scott Key family tree Family tree Explore more family trees. O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore ’Tis the star-spangled banner! O! long may it wave In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,Īs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars thro’ the perilous fight, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light For what does it call? What relation does the song suggest between the flag and the motto “In God is our trust”? How does singing the song make you feel? Does thinking about the anthem’s words alter those feelings? ![]() What is the meaning of the poem’s opening question: “O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light / What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming”? How does it differ from the question that concludes the first stanza: “O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave / O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” Why, according to the song, is the waving banner important? Why sing a song about a flag? The last stanza turns from the present war to the future. Many whose hearts are stirred by hearing the anthem sung probably could not tell you what it literally means or what Key intended to convey. Rarely, however, do we attend to the words. Nearly all American school-children are taught the words of Key’s first stanza, and for the rest of their lives they hear it sung on patriotic holidays and at sporting events. 30Days30Poets: Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” April 23rd, 2013ĭid you know that our National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was first published as a poem titled the “Defence of Fort McHenry”? Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), Washington lawyer and amateur poet, was inspired to pen the poem by the unlikely success of American troops resisting the British attack on Baltimore’s Fort McHenry on September 13, 1814, two days after the burning of the capital.
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