Julia Ward Howe Quote

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.

First lines of the published version, in the Atlantic Monthly (February 1862); Howe stated that the title Battle Hymn of the Republic was devised by the Atlantic editor James T. Fields. - The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861)