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camps, sung around our bivouac fires, and whistled in the streets, and when peace was declared and we scattered to our houses, it was carried to thousands of firesides as the most precious relic of the war of 1812."
Here are the verses of the "Star-spangled Banner" as written by Francis Scott Key, who was born in 1780 and died 1843.
" Oh 1 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 0' er the ramparts we watch' d, were so gallantly streaming ? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting m air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh ! say, does the Star-spangled Banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
" On the shoie, 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 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 1
1<Oh ! thus be it ever, when foemen shall stand
Between their loved home and foul war3 s desolation; Blest with vict'ry and peace may the Heav'n-rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation !
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