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Music of the Eras: J.W. Howe "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

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"Battle Hymn of the Republic." YouTube. YouTube, 29 Sept. 2009. Web. 02 Feb. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZHhQ8EsoaA&list=PLIlj3tXdzviIcSj4cmNeYsWCD_-54SpD1>.

Lyrics

"Battle Hymn of the Republic"

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

"Battle Hymn of the Republic - History and Words." Battle Hymn of the Republic. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_howe_battle_hymn.htm>.

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