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raccoon

(31,111 posts) Fri Sep 12, 2014, 12:46 PM Sep 2014

"Twilight's last gleaming"--does that phrase sound post-apocalytic to you? somehow to me,

it has that ring to it.

(Was listening to NPR this morning and they were talking about it being 200 years since Francis Scott
Key penned the well-known lyrics to the tune of a British drinking song.)

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"Twilight's last gleaming"--does that phrase sound post-apocalytic to you? somehow to me, (Original Post) raccoon Sep 2014 OP

Nope. I think that's just reading a bit too much into it. Aristus Sep 2014 #1

Aristus

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1. Nope. I think that's just reading a bit too much into it.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 01:26 PM

Sep 2014

Key is describing how he saw the flag by the last light of day the day before, and waited anxiously through the night to see the flag again.

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