“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."”

—  Julia Ward Howe

Published version, in the Atlantic Monthly (February 1862).
The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861)

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American abolitionist, social activist, and poet 1819–1910

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