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Battle Hymn of the Republic

Julia Ward Howe

14 passages1862

1Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;

2He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;

3He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:

4His truth is marching on.

5Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!

6Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

7I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,

8They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;

9I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:

10His day is marching on.

11In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

12With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;

13As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

14While God is marching on.

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