The History of the First United States Flag / and the Patriotism of Betsy Ross, the Immortal Heroine That Originated the First Flag of the Union

by J. Franklin Reigart

Oh! say does that star spangled banner yet wave,

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Chorus—Oh! say, does the star spangled banner yet wave,

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro’ the midst 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;