Pledge Allegiance

I Pledge Allegiance to the flag 
of the United States of America 
and to the Republic for which it stands, 
one Nation under God, indivisible, 
with liberty and justice for all. 


     The Star-Spangled Banner

Words: Francis Scott Key        Music: John Stafford  Smith

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, 
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 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? 


On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, 
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 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand 
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, for our cause it is just, 
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." 

And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!



    America the Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies, 
For amber waves of grain, 
For purple mountain majesties 
Above the fruited plain! 
America! America! 
God shed his grace on thee 
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!


O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. 
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life! 
America! America!
May God thy gold refine 
Till all success be nobleness 
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream 
That sees beyond the years 
Thine alabaster cities gleam 
Undimmed by human tears! 
America! America! 
God shed his grace on thee 
And crown thy good with brotherhood 
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America ! America !
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through 
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life !
America! America! 
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain 
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream 
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears! 
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again 
Thy whiter jubilee!