Star Spangled Banner

and to the Republic for which it stands 
"A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce,
who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything." 
– George Washington.

Happy Birthday America!!!
 

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: 
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

by Francis Scott Key