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'''Mine eyes have seen the glory''' or ''[[Battle Hymn of the Republic]]'' written in 1861 by [[Julia Ward Howe]].

=Tunes=
* [[Battle Hymn]]
* [[Batal-Himno (Beatty)]]

=Lyrics=
*Poet: [[Julia Ward Howe]], 1861
*Copyright: [[Public Domain]]
==Lyrics from [http://books.google.com/books?id=39oB-ufp2SYC&pg=PA758&dq=%22Battle+Hymn+of+the+Republic%22+hymnal&as_brr=1#PPA758,M1 The Hymnal: By United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1919 (no. 758)]==
:1. 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:

::''Chorus''
::His truth is marching on.

:(''Refrain'')
::Glory! glory! Hallelujah!
::Glory! glory! Hallelujah!
::Glory! glory! Hallelujah!
::His truth is marching on.

:2. 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:

::''Chorus''
::His day is marching on.

:3. 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,

::''Chorus''
::Since God is marching on."

:4. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call 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!

::''Chorus''
::Our God is marching on.

:5. 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<ref>Some later hymnals change this to ''live''.</ref> to make men free,

::''Chorus''
::While God is marching on.

=Footnotes/References=
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=External Links=
*[http://www.hymnswithoutwords.com/downloads.php?cat_id=12 Free downloadable recording of the hymn for use in public and private worship from hymnswithoutwords.com]

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