The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a patriotic anthem written by Julia Ward Howe for the United States during the American Civil War as a replacement for the words to the marching song John Brown's Body. It was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in February, 1862.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
Chorus (repeated after each verse):
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
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.
"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 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.
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.External link
