Battle Hymn Of The Republic

Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe
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BY JULIA WARD HOW
Julls Ward Howe born into la best known to
the American pubile by her splendid ”
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the
Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the graves
of wrath are at
He hath leoned the fateful lightning of his terrible
swift sword,
His truth in marching on
I have seen hlin in the watch thes of a hundred
cireling caтри:
They have bulided him an altar in the evening dews
and dampe,
I can read his righteous sentence by the diin and
Maring lampe
Itis day is marching ch
I have read a fßery gospel, welt in burnteed rows
of steel:
“As ye deal with my contemnera, so with you
my grace shall deal
Let the hero, born of woman, crush terit
with his heel
Since God is marching on
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never
call retrent He in effting out the hearts of men before is Judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him! be jubilant,
my feet!
Our God is marching on
In the beauty of the lilles Christ was born arrose
the sea:
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and nie; As be wed to make men holy, let us die to make men
frev
While God is marching on