Talk:Independence Dragon/@comment-11733558-20130916112925

Best description ever!:

Baby:Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' 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?

Juvenile: 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: O, long may it wave <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Adult : <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">A home and a country should leave us no more? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">No refuge could save the hireling and slave <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Epic:  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation; <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">And this be our motto: "In God is our trust" <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;">O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!