What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
WORD LISTSThe Star Spangled BannerApril 23, 2012
During the War of 1812, British ships attacked Fort McHenry that stood in the harbor defending the city of Baltimore. An American prisoner named Francis Scott Key watched the battle from the deck of a British ship. The bombardment continued all night, but in the first light of dawn Key saw the American flag still flying defiantly over the fort. Key was so inspired that on the spot he wrote the poem that would later become America's National Anthem.
  
hail
gleaming
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
broad
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
perilous
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
rampart
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming!
gallantly
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming!
spangle
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
banner
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
foe
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
haughty
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
host
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
dread
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
repose
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
tower
What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep,
conceal
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
disclose
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
gleam
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
glory
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream;
foul
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
pollution
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
refuge
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
hireling
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
triumph
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
desolation
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
motto
And this be our motto:-- "In God is our trust!"
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