Battle Hymn Of The Republic Lyrics

Battle Hymn Of The Republic lyrics

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

Writer Julia Ward Howe



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. CHORUS: Glory!
Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! 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 His fiery gospel writ in rows of burnished 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.