Battle-Hymn of the Republic
by Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) |
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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. |
By Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
Listed December 29, 2012 |
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