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Text:Fling Out the Banner!
Author:G. W. Doane
Tune:WALTHAM
Composer:J. B. Calkin

370. Fling Out the Banner!

1 Fling out the banner! let it float
Skyward and seaward, high and wide;
Our glory only in the cross;
Our only hope, the Crucified.

2 Fling out the banner! angels bend
In anxious silence o'er the sign,
And vainly seek to comprehend
The wonder of the love Divine.

3 Fling out the banner! sin-sick souls,
That sink and perish in the strife,
Shall touch in faith its radiant hem,
And spring immortal into life.

4 Fling out the banner! wide and high,
Seaward and skyward, let it shine:
Nor skill, nor might, nor merit ours;
We conquer only in that sign.

Text Information
First Line: Fling out the banner!
Title: Fling Out the Banner!
Author: G. W. Doane
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Living His Life: Called to Activity; Living His Life: Call to Activity
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: WALTHAM
Composer: J. B. Calkin
Meter: L. M.
Key: E♭ Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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