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| Battle Hymn of the Republic | |||||||||||||
| Words by Julia Ward Howe (1862) | |||||||||||||
| CHORUS Glory, Glory Hallelujah, Glory, Glory Hallelujah, Glory, Glory Hallelujah, His truth is marching on. |
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| 1. 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. |
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| 2. 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. |
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| 3. 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." |
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| 4. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His Judgement Seat; Oh! be swift, my soul, to answer Him, be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. |
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| 5. 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. |
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