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July 4th? Independence Day? This seemed appropriate:

 

"The Star-Spangled Banner" (first verse)

 

O 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 rockets' red glare, / the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through 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?

 

Matoran Translation:

 

"Ni'uma Runa"

 

Ou avahima / ki i'akuyaka,

Ki o maui ilo- / -ma'a-ngu akuyanu,

Wairho ni-avaui / raui-i'azaia

Akuwi-maikoro, / akakui movyaganu?

Koradak-toiavka / ile'a krayaga,

Akramu ki akya / ki runa'o boya,

'ko-rya, ni'uma-runa ivyaka-lei

Rokua-miwahi no roaki-mirei?

 

Time to go eat good food and watch some fireworks with the fam. Happy 4th.

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You know, I've always considered the second verse to be more suited as the National Anthem. It's always bothered me that the verse ends on a question, yet is traditionally sung triumphantly, which makes no sense. It's a big question that gets answered in the second verse.

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You know, I've always considered the second verse to be more suited as the National Anthem. It's always bothered me that the verse ends on a question, yet is traditionally sung triumphantly, which makes no sense. It's a big question that gets answered in the second verse.

Which is further oddened by English having questions pronounced differently.

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