Star Spangled Banner / One Nation Under God - EMT Don Mathews - Tributes

Star Spangled Banner / One Nation Under God - EMT Don Mathews - Tributes


The Star Spangled Banner lyrics come from a poem
written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key titled "Defense of
Fort McHenry" after witnessing the bombardment of
Fort McHenry by British Royal Navy ships during the
War of 1812 while the music was written by John
Stafford Smith for a British men's social club in London
"The Anacreontic Society" and adopted for the Star
Spangled Banner which consists of Four Stanzas; Three
main Stanzas and a War time Stanza of which we only
commonly perform the First Stanza which is what we
recognize as our National Anthem so we thought we
would include the lyrics to the other Three Stanzas.

The Second Stanza:
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, O! long may it wave O'er the land of the
free and the home of the brave.

The Third Stanza:
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.

The Fourth and War Time Only Stanza:
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved
home and the war's desolation. Blest with vict'ry 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 Our Trust", And the star-
spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and
the home of the brave!

In indignation over the start of the Civil War, Oliver Wendell
Holmes added this Fifth Stanza:
When our land is illumined with liberty's smile, If a foe from within
strikes a blow at her glory, Down, down with the traitor that tries to
defile The flag of the stars, and the page of her story! By the
millions unchained, Who their birthright have gained We will keep
her bright blazon forever unstained; And the star-spangled banner
in triumph shall wave, While the land of the free is the home of the
brave.

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War. Since that time it has become an extremely popular and well-known American patriotic song.

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