AMERICAN BATTLE HYMN.
Wc publish below “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” the national war song of the United Slates of America. This hymn is very little known.in this country, and now seems a tilting time for its publication. America is acting up to the spirit and letter of the song, and her sons are dying that others may be free, as they wore when the hymn was written at the time of the war between the Northern and Southern Stales of the Union for the liberation of the slaves. As an expression of high national ideals and the sentiment of liberty it is probably unsurpassed in any language : Mine eyes have seen the coming of the Glory of the Lord; lie is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the wateli-lires of a hundred circling camps; They have huildcd Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; 1 can read His righteous sentence by the dim and Haring lamps; lt Ills day is marching on. -•‘l**? Tv* 1 have read a Jiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; “As ye deal with My contemners, so with yc My grace shall deal”; Let the Hero born of woman crush the serpent Tiealh his heel: (Since God is marching on. He has sounded forth (he trumpet •that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His -judgment scat; 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 iiis bosom that transfigures you and me: As Me died to make men holy, let us • die to make men free : While God is marching on. —Julia Ward IJowc.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1899, 5 November 1918, Page 4
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321AMERICAN BATTLE HYMN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1899, 5 November 1918, Page 4
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