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Battle Hymn Of The Republic (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2017 OP
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Thank you for some beautiful renditions...I've always thought this should be our national anthem... First Speaker Jul 2017 #14
I agree very moving and inspirational song, but disagree it s/b national anthem. Fla Dem Jul 2017 #16
Wow! The most moving rendition I've heard! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #15

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
14. Thank you for some beautiful renditions...I've always thought this should be our national anthem...
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 01:18 AM
Jul 2017

...a beautiful song, and one that expresses our ideals as a nation, and that time above all others when we came together as a people to realize them...

Fla Dem

(23,591 posts)
16. I agree very moving and inspirational song, but disagree it s/b national anthem.
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 09:22 AM
Jul 2017

I love the song and love signing it, but it's basically a religious hymn.

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.
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 His fiery gospel writ in rows of burnished steel!
"As ye deal with my condemners, 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 judgment 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.

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