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Wikipedia article{{Infobox musical composition | name = The Son of God Goes Forth to War | type = | image = Reginald Heber.jpg | alt = | caption = Reginald Heber | translation = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | composer = | genre = Hymn | occasion = | text = Reginald Heber | language = | written = 1812 | based_on = | meter = 8.6.8.6 D | melody = "All Saints New" by Henry Stephen Cutler | composed = | published = | misc = }} The 'Son of God Goes Forth to War' (1812) is a hymn by Reginald Heber which appears, with reworked lyrics, in the novella 'The Man Who Would Be King' (1888), by Rudyard Kipling and, set to the Irish tune 'The Moreen' / 'The Minstrel Boy', in the film 'The Man Who Would Be King' (1975), directed by John Huston.[https://books.google.com/books?id=-RNO-t7U_REC&pg=PA113&dq=The+Son+of+God+Goes+Forth+to+War+The+Man+Who+Would+be+King&hl=pt-PT&ei=7rjPTbO3IcqO8gOilNz_DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Son%20of%20God%20Goes%20Forth%20to%20War%20The%20Man%20Who%20Would%20be%20King&f=false 'The Son of God Goes Forth to War': Biblical Imagery in Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King'], Larry J. Kreitzer, in 'Borders, boundaries and the Bible', edited by Martin O'Kane], pp 113-116 and 122-124 In religious use it is more often sung to Henry Stephen Cutler's 1872 tune "All Saints New", which was written for it.
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