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The Star Spangled Banner

1/5/2023

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The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,...
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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 star­spangled 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 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!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest 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!
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    Stay
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    *to continue to be
           *to hold out or endure
    *to keep up
         *to stop or halt
       *to hold back
             *to stand one's ground
         *remain firm
        *wait for
             *implies continuing or being left after others have gone
    *being in readiness, anticipation, or expectation
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    *to strengthen or sustain
    *
    to rest

    Stay the course 
    *to persevere

     *endure to completion
    *to continue doing something - even when it is difficult
    (Based on the literal meaning of a ship continuing on in the same direction even under bad conditions.)

    I believe in America - right or wrong.
    I believe that America is the best place on earth to live and to grow and to learn.
    But I also believe that America as individuals and as a Nation needs to return to her roots and to 
    STAY THE COURSE!

    We are the UNITED States of America.
    Let's STAY THE COURSE of being UNITED. ​

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