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So sings the world's fond slave! so flies the dream
Of life's gay morn; so sinks the meteor ray
Of fancy into darkness; and no beam
Of purer light shines on the wanderer's way.

— Francis Scott Key

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O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation.

The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)

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Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)

If we believe in the existence of a great moral and political evil amongst us, and that duty, honour, and interest, call upon us to prepare the way for its removal, we must act.

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