Julia Ward Howe


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  • Cover of SAY BROTHERS WILL YOU MEET US in 1862 - her husband was too old to fight and her sons too young to be enlisted, so she wrote The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, poem first published on the cover of the February edition of Atlantic Monthly (it was chief editor James T. Fields who provided the poem's title); revealed to her one night in a Washington, DC hotel room as a more elevated reaction upon John Brown's Body's uncompromising lyrics; it captured the emotional time frame as no other (at the beginning of the American Civil War) without using any references to a particular time or space, which makes it so universally popular and adaptable to whatever cause and situation since; opening line "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" concluded Dr. Martin Luther King's last sermon on April 3rd, 1968 at Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ HQ), South Memphis, better known as the Mountaintop speech; lyrics also refer to the grapes of wrath: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; first public singing of The Battle Hymn during a celebration of George Washington's birthday at the Congregational Church in Framingham, Massachusetts; later in her life Julia Howe struggled for women's rights; she came up with the idea behind Mother's Day

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