 | Elocution - 1885 - 332 pages
...judgment seat; O, 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...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. JULIA WARD HOWE.... | |
 | Joseph Richard Bradway - Poetry - 1885 - 52 pages
...judgment seat. O! 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...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. For grandeur of... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - United States - 1885 - 282 pages
...follows quick upon bur southern sunset, the words went with me, and have never left my memory : ' In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the...a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me ; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. ' " There is an anthem, Ben Nathan, that... | |
 | Martha Louise Rayne - American literature - 1885 - 578 pages
...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...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. ROCK ME TO SLEEP.... | |
 | Lewis Hubbard Reid - 1885 - 168 pages
...the graves of our patriot dead. Some who sleep in those graves used to sing on the march : — " In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea ; With a glory in His bosom Which transfigures you and me ; As He died to make men holy, Let us die to make men free, While God... | |
 | Raymond Barber - Bible - 2004 - 368 pages
...Mother Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) penned these immortal words in her "Battle Hymn of the Republic": In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the...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. It was in the long... | |
 | V. Neil Wyrick - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 132 pages
...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...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. 3 "Port Hudson:... | |
 | David Hackett Fischer - History - 2005 - 880 pages
...Him, be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. And it ended in a soaring vision of freedom. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the...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. Mrs. Howe sent... | |
 | Robert Jewett, John Shelton Lawrence - Political Science - 2004 - 412 pages
...suffering for others. This sets the stage for the next 140 years of altruistic, martial zeal in America: In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the...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. This ideology steeled... | |
 | Susan Jacoby - History - 2004 - 433 pages
...verse is today, explicitly articulates the song's Christian doctrinal basis and emotional appeal: "In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the...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." But what was... | |
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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. 
