Which Star Spangled Banner excerpt includes the line ‘The star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave’?

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This line appears in the third stanza. In that stanza, the speaker notes that after the struggles of war, the banner is seen “in triumph” as a symbol of victory and resilience, and it declares that the star-spangled banner is waving in triumph over the land of the free and the home of the brave. That specific image of the banner waving in triumph is not in the first stanza (which asks if the banner still waves at dawn), nor in the second (which ends with praise of the flag’s glory), nor in the fourth (which shifts to a pledge about freemen and trust in God). So the excerpt containing that line comes from the third stanza.