Lyrics Julia Ward Howe; Music Lara Weaver
A stirring musical setting of an excerpt from Julia Ward Howe's "Mother's Day Proclamation." Written in 1870, Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe's feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level. In one of history's ironies, Howe is known today primarily as the author of the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Love this stuff. my wife wants to do te song I submit here in her sweet adelines group
coomadoug 3 years ago