O 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, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts 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;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
—FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.
Study the words and write the stanza from memory.
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na tion
na tion al
cer e mo ny
fol low ing
ob serve
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sun rise
sun set
me mo ri al
spec ta tors
at ten tion
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dur ing
du ra ble
mil i tary
mi li tia
re quire
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staff
rev o lu tion
re volv er
reg u la tions
sa lute
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hoist
un cov er
a rise
low ered
re view
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fu ner al
mourn ing
mourn ful
con clu sion
halt
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