quote:"Oh, say can you seeby the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru 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 thru 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 through 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 in 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.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out of of their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave' From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power 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.
I was writing some poetry and heard "America the Beautiful" playing on the news and thought suddenly of how beautiful the words were. I got a little curious though and, instead of printing off those lyrics, did a quick search for these. I thought I'd post them as I think it's pretty interesting how different it seems with all of the words.
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quote: A jenny were screaming outside his shanty. Anthem thought at first that it were Fattie Hattie, who sometime broke out her house and ran screaming through the streets. But more he listened, more he thought that the jenny didn’t sound like Fattie Hattie none at all. For one thing, this jenny were screaming words, and Fattie Hattie didn’t never do naught but just plain scream. For another, the jenny’d scream for a bit, then stop, and then scream some more. With Fattie Hattie, it were all one long, loud scream. And they was other voices mixing in with her screaming—men’s voices. Most everybody knowed what all Fattie Hattie were about, and left her be.
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