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 Savior died
Fling out the banner! Angels bend
In anxious silence o'er the sight
And vainly seek to comprehend
The wonder of the love divine
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
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
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Fling out the banner! let it float
Skyward and seaward, high and wide
Our glory, only in the cross
Our only hope, the Crucified!
Alternate verse:
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
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