Like usual, you only want to imprint what you want to remember. Go back and read what I wrote in CAPITAL LETTERS: It says the LAST VERSE. If there's a LAST VERSE, then their must be previous verses, thus more to the National Anthem. Can your little mind grasp that concept. If there's a last then there has to be a first, and in the case of the National Anthem there are verses in between the FIRST VERSE and LAST VERSE. Meaning, that there are more VERSES than 2. Do - you - understand - now? Oh, Perdoneme. Comprende Ingles?
I understand "last" - do you?
http://www.usflag.org/thenationalanthem.html
"On the shore dimly seen, thro' 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, half conceals, half 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: oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd 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
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that has made and preserved us as a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust";
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
Written by Francis Scott Key on September 14th, 1814.
There's actually one more verse sung by Sandy Patti too. Not sure who wrote that. Does any of that help?
I apologize - I thought you posted just the first (widely-known) part. Have you heard the Sandy Patti version?