Fling Out The Banner
- Words:
- George W. Doane
- Music:
- J. B. Calkin
Sheet music
- 1Fling out the banner! let it floatSky-ward and sea-ward, high and wide;The sun that lights its shining folds,The cross on which the Savior died.Fling out the banner! angels bendIn anxious silence o’er the sign,And vainly seek to comprehendThe wonder of the love divine.
- 2Fling out the banner! heathen landsShall 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 on faith its radiant hem,And spring immortal into life.
- 3Fling out the banner! let it floatSky-ward and sea-ward, high and wide;Our glory only in the cross;Our only hope, the Crucified.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1848, the words are in 528 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.