{"id":33610,"date":"2014-07-11T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/grantianflorilegium\/every-stanza-of-the-star-spangled-banner\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T05:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T05:24:51","slug":"every-stanza-of-the-star-spangled-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/every-stanza-of-the-star-spangled-banner\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Stanza of the Star Spangled Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During the night of September 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key, a Washington attorney was sent to the British command to secure the release of a prisoner when the fleet began to bombard the placements of American fortifications in Baltimore at Fort McHenry. Though the battle raged through the night, the defenses stood firm. The sight of the flag still flying over the fort the next morning inspired the young lawyer to pen the immortal words of The Star Spangled Banner<\/i>. Set to a popular English song, Anacreon in Heaven<\/i>, it was officially declared to be the American national anthem more than a hundred years later, just before the First World War. <\/p>\n

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Though the first stanza is very familiar to us today, the rest of this great hymn is sadly neglected. This July 4, let’s rectify that unwarranted slight:<\/p>\n

O! say, can you see, by the dawn\u2019s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight\u2019s last gleaming:
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O\u2019er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming,
And the rocket\u2019s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:<\/p>\n

O! say, does the star-spangled banner still wave
O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/p>\n

On the shore, dimly seen through the mist of the deep,
Where the foe\u2019s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o\u2019er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning\u2019s first beam\u2014
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream<\/p>\n

\u2018Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n

And where is the band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle\u2019s confusion
A home and a country would leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps\u2019 pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave!<\/i><\/p>\n


And the star-spangled banner in triumph cloth wave
O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n

O! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the foe\u2019s desolation;
Bless\u2019d with victory and peace, may our heaven\u2011rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just\u2014
And this be our motto\u2014\u201cIn God is our trust!\u201d<\/p>\n

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the night of September 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key, a Washington attorney was sent to the British command to secure the release of a prisoner when the fleet began to bombard the placements of American fortifications in Baltimore at Fort McHenry. Though the battle raged through the night, the defenses stood firm. The sight of the flag still flying over … <\/p>\n

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