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== Battle Hymn of the Republic ==

== Battle Hymn of the Republic ==

Written by Julia W. Howe during the [[Civil War]], it was the product of an inspiration that awoke her before dawn:<ref>http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/h/bhymnotr.htm</ref>

Written by [[Julia W. Howe]] during the [[Civil War]], it was the product of an inspiration that awoke her before dawn:<ref>http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/h/bhymnotr.htm</ref>

:"I awoke in the grey of the morn­ing, and as I lay wait­ing for dawn, the long lines of the de­sired po­em be­gan to en­twine them­selves in my mind, and I said to my­self, “I must get up and write these vers­es, lest I fall asleep and for­get them!” So I sprang out of bed and in the dim­ness found an old stump of a pen, which I re­mem­bered us­ing the day be­fore. I scrawled the vers­es al­most with­out look­ing at the p­aper.

:"I awoke in the grey of the morn­ing, and as I lay wait­ing for dawn, the long lines of the de­sired po­em be­gan to en­twine them­selves in my mind, and I said to my­self, “I must get up and write these vers­es, lest I fall asleep and for­get them!” So I sprang out of bed and in the dim­ness found an old stump of a pen, which I re­mem­bered us­ing the day be­fore. I scrawled the vers­es al­most with­out look­ing at the p­aper.