Why has the American flag described in the poem became an iconic image used as tool for social justice and social change?
O! say can you see by the dawnâs early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilightâs last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
Oâer the ramparts we watchâd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the Rocketsâ 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,
Oâer the Land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foeâs haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, oâer the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morningâs first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream,
âTis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
Oâer the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battleâs 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 hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
Oâer the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand,
Between their lovâd home and the warâs desolation,
Blest with victâry and peace, may the Heavân rescued land,
Praise the Power that hath made and preservâd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our mottoââIn God is our Trust;â
And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
Oâer the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
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