America's Battle Hymn.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2112, 23 June 1898, Page 3

America's Battle Hymn.

In reprinting these verses it may be mentioned that they were wri ten in 1861, and that they were sung all through the Civil War to the air of ‘ John Brown’s Body,’ which itself spra%sike America’ and ‘Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,’ from English sources. Mine ©yes lirva seen the glory of t'ne coming 61 the Lord; - He is t -amp'iag cut the vintage where too grapes of are stored ; —hath loosed the fateful lightning His of terrible swift Bword ; His truth is march ; ng on. I have seen Him in the watchfives of a hundred circling camps; They have buitded.Eim an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the. dim and flaring lamps * i s . His day ia marching oh. I have read a fie-y gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; • ’ «As ye deal with my contemners, so with yon tny grace snail dealLet the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.’ ~He has sounded forth the trumpet that shalijnever call retreat / He is the hearts of men before His judgment B9at; • . . Oh, be swift, my bou), to answer Him ? be jubilant, my feet! Our God is matching on, < In the beualy of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, ~ With a gtoxy in Hib bosom that transfigures you and me ; As He died to mate man holy, let ub die to mate men free. While God is marcai jg on.