Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.
Julia Ward Howe 18191910
Julia Ward Howe137 Battle-Hymn of the Republic
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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.
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. “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 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. 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.