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The famous "Battle Hymn of the Republic," to which great armies of soldiers marched during the American Civil War, was the fruit of this mysterious sleep composition. Julia Ward Howe had often tried to think out the words for a new marching song but without success. But one morning she awoke in the grey dawn with the verses of the new hymn forming themselves spontaneously in her mind. She rushed to write them down before dressing and before they fled away.

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 3 : The States of Consciousness > # 170