Later Julia Ward Howe is shown in her room asleep at midnight, then rising in a trance and writing the Battle Hymn at a table by the bed.
The pictures that might possibly have passed before her mind during the trance are thrown upon the screen.

The phrases they illustrate are not in the final order of the poem, but in the possible sequence in which they went on the paper in the first sketch.

The dream panorama is not a literal discussion of abolitionism or states' rights.

It illustrates rather the Hebraic exultation applied to all lands and times.

"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord"; a gracious picture of the nativity.