Oh, 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, thro´ the perilous fight,
O´er the ramparts we watch´d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets´ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro´ the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave