Comments on: Talking History – Julia Ward Howe http://piratelibrary.com/2009/talking-history-julia-ward-howe A book of a thousand pages starts with a single word. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Walter Goldenberg http://piratelibrary.com/2009/talking-history-julia-ward-howe#comment-52157 Walter Goldenberg Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:40:08 +0000 http://piratelibrary.com/?p=86#comment-52157 PS: Again apropos of Mother's Day, I just remembered another line from the Hymn: "Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent 'neath his heel...." PS: Again apropos of Mother’s Day, I just remembered another line from the Hymn: “Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent ‘neath his heel….”

]]> By: Walter Goldenberg http://piratelibrary.com/2009/talking-history-julia-ward-howe#comment-52079 Walter Goldenberg Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:58:56 +0000 http://piratelibrary.com/?p=86#comment-52079 Julia Ward Howe is well-known in the U.S. as the poetess who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". It is a remarkable poem with truly powerful lines - which, she says, came to her overnight, in a fury of inspiration, while visiting a Union camp - but apropos of your comment about Mother's Day, one of the Hymn's lines, "Let us die to make men free", is now much more commonly sung as "Let us LIVE to make men free". I suppose that, mother or not, Ms. Howe believed that certain causes, and some kinds of wars, were worth dying in. Can we hear you read the Hymn? Julia Ward Howe is well-known in the U.S. as the poetess who wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. It is a remarkable poem with truly powerful lines – which, she says, came to her overnight, in a fury of inspiration, while visiting a Union camp – but apropos of your comment about Mother’s Day, one of the Hymn’s lines, “Let us die to make men free”, is now much more commonly sung as “Let us LIVE to make men free”. I suppose that, mother or not, Ms. Howe believed that certain causes, and some kinds of wars, were worth dying in.

Can we hear you read the Hymn?

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