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Rh Thomas Kelly's hymn after battle is likewise of this time:

Later decades of the same century produced another group of these militaristic hymns. In the 1860's the spirit of Victorian imperialism produced such martial processionals as Onward Christian Soldiers, We March, We March, to Victory, and Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, God of Hosts, Eternal King, and a few years before:

The very missionary hymns savor of imperialism and the lure of the White Man's burden. Bishop Heber's From Greenlands Icy Mountains, for instance, rich with the same romantic interest in remote lands that inspired in the same year, 1819, James Montgomery's poem Greenland, exhorts a chosen people "whose souls are lighted with wisdom from on high" to carry to the "heathen in his blindness" their particular brand of religious kultur.

Mingled, moreover, throughout the Victorian period with such hymns of the Church Militant, and with songs of the personal struggle between faith and scientific doubt, are many songs of the other world wherein the weary earth-dweller may forget sorrow and doubt and strife, in pleasant courts above. Some of these hymns are mediaeval in imagery and feeling, akin to the Oxford Movement