Classic Poem

1. Fling out the banner! Let it float Skyward and seaward, high and wide,
3. Fling out the banner! Heathen lands Shall see from far the glorious sight,
The sun that lights its shining folds, The Cross on which the Saviour died.
And nations, crowding to be born, Baptize their spirits in its light.
2. Fling out the banner! Angels bend In anxious silence o'er the sign;
4. Fling out the banner! Sinsick souls That sink and perish in the strife,
And vainly seek to comprehend The wonder of the love divine.
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.