Battle Hymn of the Republic; Mine eyes have seen the glory of the comming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lighting of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. GLORY! GLORY, HALLELUJAH! GLORY!GLORY, HALLELUJAH! GLORY! GLORY, HALLELUJAH! OUR GOD IS MARCHING ON! I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentance by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on!
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His Judgment seat; O 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 live to make men free; While God is marching on.......
I hope the the President will read this and go to the capital and recite this!!!
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men freeThe original lyrics, which came to Julia Ward Howe in a dream, were, ". . .let us die to make men free"
In 1870, Howe wrote the first Mother's Day Proclamation. Very different sentiment than found in the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Could we have the source for the "Washington Prayer"? It seems a little incongruous that as early as 1776 he would be using the expression "United States" to describe the colonies in revolt.
I have always been partial to the fourth verse of the Star Spangled Banner.
Unfortunately, children in our country's taxpayer financed public schools are forbidden from singing it.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blessed with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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