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"O! say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd 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 rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?"
Francis Scott Key (1779-1843), U.S. poet. The Star-spangled Banner (l. 1-8). . . World's Best Loved Poems, The. James Gilchrist Lawson, comp. (1927) Harper & Row.

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Simone Carvalho (5/31/2006 11:21:00 AM)
I had never noticed how actually interesting - and beautiful - this poem was until I read it like this - as a normal poem, without the tune US national anthem. (Not that I dislike the tune) If you never really noticed this poem before (even if you sang or heard it a thousand times) try to forget the tune and rythm and read it to your self as close to prose as possible, you might have a pleasant surprise - as I did.

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Francis Scott Key - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fort McHenry looking towards the position of the British ships (with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the distance on the upper left) ...
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Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key: Francis Scott Key. ... View the Star Spangled Banner Manuscript signed, Francis Scott Key Courtesy of the Library of Congress ...
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Francis Scott Key was a respected young lawyer living in Georgetown just west of ... Word soon reached Francis Scott Key that the British had carried off an ...
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Fort McHenry - Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key was born on August 1, 1779, in western Maryland. His family was very wealthy and owned an estate called "Terra Rubra." ...
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