The Star Spangled-Banner was not a poem set to a melody years later.
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O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Francis Scott Key intended his verses to be song lyrics, not poetry. No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusionĪ home and a Country should leave us no more? O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore, ’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
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In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, Shehane Gold 86 - 88, Scott Holtan Gold 81 - 82, and J. Rinehart Key Command Master Chief Blue 84 - 89, Don A. Francis Scott Key, a slaveholding lawyer from an old Maryland plantation family, wrote the song that would in 1931 become the national anthem and proclaim our nation the land of the free. Please take all safety precautions and get your shots. Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, Unfortunately, we have lost more Key shipmates, at least two from the Covid 19 virus.
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,Īs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, Friederich, the music is played as it would have been heard in 1854. This 19th century version (MP3) of the Star-Spangled Banner was performed on original instruments from the National Museum of American History's collection. Shortly afterward, two Baltimore newspapers published it, and by mid-October it had appeared in at least seventeen other papers in cities up and down the East Coast. Born 1 August 1773, Died 11 January 1843.
Front: The first ship of the fleet named for Francis Scott Key, Author of the National Anthem. A local printer issued the new song as a broadside. USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN 657) Marker-Front Inscription. Back in Baltimore, he completed the four verses (PDF) and copied them onto a sheet of paper, probably making more than one copy. Inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the morning after the bombardment, he scribbled the initial verse of his song on the back of a letter. There were several submarines in the Ben Franklin Class, this model has no distinctive markings so it could work for any one of the following.Francis Scott Key was a gifted amateur poet. We have many other wooden model submarines in our inventory so please be sure to check these out as well. This model is the real deal hand carved from solid mahogany and weighing 3 lbs. There were a number of Ben Franklin Class submarines in service and his model can serve for any of them as it does not have any distinct markings designating it one from the other. Military Mahogany is proud to announce the release of this handcrafted mahogany wood model of the 640 Ben Franklin Class submarine complete with display stand.
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