The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics - Red House Painters [ii] - Red House Painters

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 tauntingly 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 

Blast 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