Retro Lyrics

 

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC   

 

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 has loosed the fateful lightening 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  

l can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps  

His day is marching on   

 

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish'd rows of 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 from 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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