Fling Out the Banner Lyrics George W. Doane, 1848
6 verses, meter L.M., public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 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 Savior died.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Words copied from The Otterbein Hymnal (1892). They were published in 1848, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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