The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 ‎#253

253. Fling out the banner! let it float

1 Fling out the banner! let it float
Skyward and seaward, high and wide;
The sun that lights its shining folds,
The cross, on which the Saviour died.

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! heathen lands
Shall see from far the glorious sight,
And nations, crowding to be born,
Baptize their spirits in its light.

4 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.

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

6 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.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Fling out the banner! let it float
• Title: Fling out the banner! let it float
• Author: Bp. G. W. Doane (1848)
• Meter: L. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1894
• Notes: Now Public Domain. Tune name in index: WALTHAM

Tune Information

• Name: [Fling out the banner! let it float]
• Composer: J. B. Calkin
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: E♭ Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain.