AMERICA'S BATTLE HYMN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 292, 13 July 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

AMERICA'S BATTLE HYMN.

The "Battle Hymn of the Republic," sung at St Paul's Cathedral on America Day was written by Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War. Mine eyes have seen the glory of

the ccming of the L^rd; He is trampling out the vintage where thg grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fatal lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on.

1 have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; Thev 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 burnisher! rows of steel—"As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace sh.ill deal"; Let the Tlero. bcrn of woman, crush the p-erpent with His heel. Since God is marching on!

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat: He is siftine out the hearts of men before His judgment seat: Oh! be swift mv soul, to answer Him! be inbilant. niv feet! Our God is marching cn! In the heantv of the lilier- Christ v.as born, across the s<\i. the c;]rrv in His bosom that transfigures yon and me: .A-: rliv-i f 0 men holy, let us r'.-r■ tr> rinl'e man free, Cnr] !•; niarchinsr on!