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The Spirit of the Lord, etc.
Isaiah 59:19.
Fling out the banner! let it float
Sky-ward and sea-ward, 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
Sky-ward and sea-ward, high and wide;
Our glory, only in the cross;
Our only hope, the Crucified.
6 Fling out the banner! wide and high,
Sea-ward and sky-ward, let it shine;
Nor skill, nor might, nor merit, ours;
We conquer only in that sign.
Doane.