The Star-Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key, 1814)

Vexillum Stellatum (trans. C. Pavur, 2009)

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 rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Videre potesne luce matutina
quod salutavimus vespere morienti
cuius clav(i) et stellae turbidam per pugnam
in tutatis muris fortiter se praebebant?
Fulgoresque diri, fragoresque belli
monstrant per noctem: aderat vexillum!
Adhucne signum illud stellatum stat
super terram liberam patriamque fortem?

The Star-Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key, 1814)

Vexillum Stellatum (trans. F. A. Geyser, 1918)

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 rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Oh, potestne cerni, praefulgente die,
Salutatum signum circa noctis adventum?
Lati clav(i) et stellae, decertant(e) acie,
Gloriose cingunt oppidi munimentum!
Iaculumque rubens, globus sursum rumpens
Per noctem monstrant vexillum fulgens.
Stellatumne vexillum volans tegit nos,
Patriam liberam fortiumque domos?