The Star Spangled Banner — текст песни (The National Anthem of the United States)

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, 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:
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 fully 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.