Song 49 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Also known as: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
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For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.
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All the words
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 lightnings of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
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 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."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!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.
About this song
- Music
- American camp-meeting tune "Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us" (c. 1856), attributed to William Steffe (1830–1890)
- Words
- Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910)
- First published
- Words 1862 (The Atlantic Monthly, February); tune printed c. 1856–1861
- Copyright
- Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.