The Star-Spangled Banner
The Georgetown lawyer who watched the shelling of Fort McHenry from a truce ship and wrote the four stanzas that became the national anthem.
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Public domain. Text from Selections from American Poetry, with Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, edited by Margaret Sprague Carhart, Project Gutenberg ebook #3650. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.