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The Star Spangled Banner
Oh, 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 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 through 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 their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the
hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or 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!
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The Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic
for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.
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God Bless
America
While the storm clouds gather far across
the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As
we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. "
God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home
sweet home.
*The Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key.
*The Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy.
*God Bless America was written by Irving Berlin.
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