Text: | The Banner of the Cross |
Author: | Daniel Webster Whittle |
Tune: | [There's a royal banner given for display] |
Composer: | James McGranahan |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. There’s a royal banner given for display
To the soldiers of the King;
As an ensign fair we lift it up today,
While as ransomed ones we sing.
Refrain
Marching on, marching on,
For Christ count everything but loss!
And to crown Him King, we’ll toil and sing,
’Neath the banner of the cross!
2. Though the foe may rage and gather as the flood,
Let the standard be displayed;
And beneath its folds, as soldiers of the Lord,
For the truth be not dismayed! [Refrain]
3. Over land and sea, wherever man may dwell,
Make the glorious tidings known;
Of the crimson banner now the story tell,
While the Lord shall claim His own! [Refrain]
4. When the glory dawns—’tis drawing very near,
It is hastening day by day—
Then before our King the foe shall disappear,
And the cross the world shall sway! [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | There's a royal banner given for display |
Title: | The Banner of the Cross |
Author: | Daniel Webster Whittle (1885) |
Refrain First Line: | Marching on, marching on |
Language: | English |
Source: | The Gospel Choir, by Ira Sankey & James McGranahan (New York: Biglow & Main, 1885) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [There's a royal banner given for display] |
Composer: | James McGranahan |
Incipit: | 34555 13456 51172 |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |