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<h2>FLING OUT THE BANNER</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;The Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples.&#8221; Isaiah 11:10</h3></p>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_o_doane_gw.html" target="_blank">George Washington Doane</a>, 1848. Doane wrote this hymn for a ceremony to raise a new flag at St. Mary&#8217;s School in Burlington, New Jersey.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Waltham,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_a_calkin_jb.html" target="_blank">John Baptiste Calkin</a>, 1872 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_w_waltham.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Fling out the banner! let it float<br>
Skyward and seaward, high and wide;<br>
The sun that lights its shining folds,<br>
The cross, on which the Savior died.</p>
<p>Fling out the banner! heathen lands<br>
Shall see from far the glorious sight,<br>
And nations crowding to be born<br>
Baptize their spirits in its light.</p>
<p>Fling out the banner! heathen lands<br>
Shall see from far the glorious sight,<br>
And nations, crowding to be born,<br>
Baptize their spirits in its light.</p>
<p>Fling out the banner! Angels bend<br>
In anxious silence o&#8217;er the sight,<br>
And vainly seek to comprehend<br>
The wonder of the love divine.</p>
<p>Fling out the banner! sin sick souls<br>
That sink and perish in the strife,<br>
Shall touch in faith its radiant hem,<br>
And spring immortal into life.</p>
<p>Fling out the banner! let it float<br>
Skyward and seaward, high and wide,<br>
Our glory, only in the cross;<br>
Our only hope, the Crucified!</p>
<p>Fling out the banner! wide and high,<br>
Seaward and skyward, let it shine;<br>
Nor skill, nor might, nor merit ours;<br>
We conquer only in that sign.</p>
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