Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — STAR SPANGLED BANNER [ARTICLE]

STAR SPANGLED BANNER

Oh, say, edn you see, by the.daww’s early light. What mm proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose stripes end bright stars, through the periloue tight. O’er the ramiparta we watched, were so gallantly streaming?. And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting In air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. w Chorus Oh, say; does that star-epangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free amid the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen, thro’ the mists es 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 on the stream. Chorus ’Tis the star-spangled banner, oh, long may It. wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh, thus be it ever whfen free men shall stand Between their loved homes and wild war’s desolation, Blest with victory and peace, May the heaven rescued land, Praise the power that hath made And preserved us a nation, cause it is just, And this is our motto, In God is our trust. Then conquer we immst, for our