Did you know the Star Spangled Banner had FOUR verses? I had no idea until Larry Golden posted a message on Facebook of a retired marine spontaneously singing the fourth verse. Notice particularly the words in that fourth verse. Wow!<\/p>\n
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
\nWhat so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
\nO’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
\nAnd the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air
\nGave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
\nOh, say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/p>\n
Second Verse<\/strong> Third Verse<\/strong> Fourth Verse<\/strong> Did you know the Star Spangled Banner had FOUR verses? I had no idea until Larry Golden posted a message on Facebook of a retired marine spontaneously singing the fourth verse. Notice particularly the words in that fourth verse. Wow! Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn the shore dimly seen, thro’ the mists of the deep,
\nWhere the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
\nWhat is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
\nAs it fitfully blows half conceals, half discloses?
\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
\nIn full glory reflected, now shines in the stream;
\n‘Tis the Star-Spangled Banner, Oh long may it wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n
\nAnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore
\nThat the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
\nA home and a country should leave us no more?
\nTheir blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave
\nFrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n
\nOh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand
\nBetween their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
\nBlest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
\nPraise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
\nThen conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
\nAnd this be our motto, “In God is our trust”
\nAnd the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
\nO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"