1. Fling out the ban-ner! let it float Sky-ward and sea-ward, high and wide;

The sun, that lights its shin-ing folds, The cross, on which the Saviour died. AMEN.

2 Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning,
Long by the prophets of Israel foretold;
Hail to the millions from bondage returning!
Gentiles and Jews the blest vision behold.
3 Lo, in the desert rich flowers are springing,
Streams ever copious are gliding along;
Loud from the mountain-tops echoes are ringing,
Wastes rise in verdure and mingle in song,

4 See, from all lands, from the isles of the ocean,
Praise to Jehovah ascending on high;

Fallen are the engines of war and commotion,
Shouts of salvation are rending the sky.

Thomas Hastings, 1832

(DEDHAM)

2 O guard our shores from every foe,
With peace our borders bless,
With prosperous times our cities crown,
Our fields with plenteousness.

3 Unite us in the sacred love

Of knowledge, truth, and Thee: And let our hills and valleys shout The songs of liberty.

4 Lord of the nations, thus to Thee
Our country we commend;
Be Thou her refuge and her trust,
Her everlasting Friend.

Each breeze that sweeps the O cean Brings tidings from a · far

nations in commo. tion, Pre-pared for Zion's war.

world that God is Light; That He Who made all na-tions is not willing

REFRAIN

One soul should perish, lost in shades of night: Publish glad tidings;

ti- dings of peace; Ti- dings of Jesus, re-demption and re-lease. AMEN.

2 Behold how many thousands still are lying
Bound in the darksome prison-house of sin,
With none to tell them of the Saviour's dying,
Or of the life He died for them to win.

3 Proclaim to every people, tongue, and nation
That God, in whom they live and move, is Love:
Tell how He stooped to save His lost creation,
And died on earth that man might live above.