The Battle Hymn of the Republic

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a patriotic anthem written by Julia Ward Howe for the United States during the American Civil War as a variation for the words to the marching song "John Brown's Body". It was first published on the front page of The Atlantic Monthly of February 1862; the sixth verse written by Howe, which is less commonly sung, was not published then. The song is often regarded as the northern counterpart to "Dixie."

Lyrics

:Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:

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:He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;

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:He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:

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:His truth is marching on.

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::(Chorus)

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:Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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:Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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:Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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:His truth is marching on

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:I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,

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:They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;

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:I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:

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:His day is marching on.

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::Chorus

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:I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:

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:"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;

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:Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,

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:Since God is marching on."

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:He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;

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:He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:

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:Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!

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:Our God is marching on.

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::Chorus

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:In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

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:With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:

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:As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, (sometimes "let us live to make men free")

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:While God is marching on.

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::Chorus

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:(The sixth verse is often omitted)

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:He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,

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:He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;

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:So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,

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:Our God is marching on.

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::Chorus

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