The Star-Spangled Banner

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through 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.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

La standardon ekvidas fiere flirtantan?
Ni salutis ĝin ĝoje tagfine tra fum',
Sur remparoj amikaj sentime starantan.
Bombardado senĉese certigis al ni
Ke en nokto ne venis venkiĝo al ĝi.
Ĉu nun staras kuraĝe bravuloj en gard'?

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave

Super maro de la malamik' okupata,
Tra nebulo sur tero dum unu moment'
Sur altaĵo mallume nun estas vidata?
Nun per hela ekbrilo de frua maten'
En beleco vidiĝas sur akva eben'
La stelplena standardo, eterne en glor'

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's 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

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave