 "'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave, over the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore that the havoc of the 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 heroine and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.