Francis Scott Key
Freedom of Speech
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s 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?