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...Berlin males and their ample women ambled perspiring into the city's greatest sport arena until it was jampacked, then gathered about loudspeakers in adjoining squares until fully 50,000 were ready for the evening's treat. As a prelude massed Storm Troops chanted an earnest little Hymn of Hate. Cried the choral leader: "We must unite against the Enemy of Humanity." Chorus: "It is the Jew!" Leader: "We must crush those who combine everything bad." Chorus...
...full.* Silent was England's Poet Laureate, shy John Masefield. In Manhattan bold Spoon River Anthologist Edgar Lee Masters commented with a shrug: "The King and the Sea is nothing but verse-almost prose in fact. It can't be compared with Recessional. That is a cannibal hymn and I've always despised the damned thing, but it has a kind of swing to it-a lyrical dignity. This hasn't even that...
...Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung a few evenings later by Andrew Johnson, soon became the big camp-meeting hymn throughout the State of Maine...
...added the "Jeff Davis" verse, carried it to Washington. There in 1862 after a great review across the Potomac Julia Ward Howe heard the Federal troopers singing it. Early the next morning, with John Brown's Body running through her mind, she wrote the words of The Battle Hymn of the Republic to Bishop's tune...
Bishop died a respectable citizen in the early 1900's, surviving such friends as Foster, Dan Emmett (Dixie). Nelson Kneass (Ben Bolt). The Battle Hymn of the Republic has always been regarded as Julia Ward Howe's song, written to the tune of John Brown's Body whose authorship seemed to be unknown. At MacIntyre's request Thomas Brigham Bishop wrote out the tune's true history. Said he: "It was really done as a joke upon my sanctimonious brother...