Excerpt from Commencement One Hundred and Fortieth Year Oh, say, can you see, By the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed At the twilight's last gleaming'7 Whose broad stripes and bright stars, Thro' the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched, Were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets' red glare, The bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star - Spangled Banner yet wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.