{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Covenanters_coronal_The_Banner_Blue/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Covenanters_coronal_The_Banner_Blue","id":"wikisource_Covenanters_coronal_The_Banner_Blue","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Covenanters'_coronal/The_Banner_Blue","summary":null,"tags":["Church_of_Scotland","Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Main_pages_with_authority_control_data","PD-old","Pamphlets","Presbyterianism","Religion","Scotland","Scottish_poetry","Subpages","Works_using_categories_parameter"],"text":"THE BANNER BLUE\n\nHail, Banner of unfading youth,\n\nOf old to Scotland dear!\n\nWhen Freemen glowed with zeal for truth\n\nAnd tyrants quailed for fear:\n\nNo stranger thou to battle shock,\n\nOn heathy plain, or rugged rock,\n\nWhen Freedom called her faithful few\n\nTo rally round her Banner blue.\n\nWhen first thine ample folds were thrown\n\nO'er hearts no foe could daunt,\n\nIn golden ciphers brightly shone,\n\nCHRIST'S CROWN AND COVENANT!\n\nTho\u2019 Tyranny on hostile plain\n\nUnfurled the flag of sanguine stain,\n\nYet, fearless of Oppression\u2019s crew\n\nDunse Law maintained the Banner blue\n\nWhen Scotland long had groaned and bled,\n\nAnd, from her wasted plains,\n\nBeheld her sons to slaughter led,\n\nOr sold to foreign chains,\n\nShe drove the Tyrant from the throne,\n\nRefused his forfeit right to own,\n\nAnd bade her hills to WILLIAM'S view\n\nGive welcome in her Banner blue!\n\nAnd now, when Caesar, waxing bold,\n\nEncroaching on the Free\u2014\n\nWould force a Shepherd on the fold\n\nWhose voice the flock would flee;\n\nThe trump of freedom swells again,\n\nO\u2019er craggy peak, and fertile plain,\n\nAnd every son, to Scotland true,\n\nWith rapture hails the Banner blue!\n\nNo more we seek our father\u2019s sword,\n\nLet rust its gleam infold;\n\nBut we will grasp the living Word,\n\nTill death relax our hold;\n\nNor shall a right by it bestowed.\n\nFor which our Martyrs\u2019 blood hath flowed,\n\nBe bartered to a sordid crew,\n\nWhile Truth unfurls her Banner blue!\n\nThe Banner\u2019s folds shall freely wave,\n\nDipped in the hue of heaven,\n\nTill Truth shall beam on Error\u2019s cave,\n\nAnd guile from earth be driven\u00a0;\n\nFor Scotland, braving Falsehood\u2019s rage,\n\nHath planted on the sacred page,\n\nUnscathed in strength, unchanged in hue,\n\nThe badge of Truth\u2014her Banner blue!\n\nMay He who cheered our fathers\u2019 heart,\n\nAnd strung the nerves of youth,\n\nAt stake or rack with life to part,\n\nEre they betrayed the truth,\n\nMay He, when foes in torrents pour,\n\nSustain our faith in peril\u2019s hour,\n\nWith favour all our efforts view,\n\nWhile truth upholds our Banner blue!\n\nBut not alone on Scotland\u2019s plains\n\nBe Freedom\u2019s flag unfurled;\n\nOh, let her life-inspiring strains\n\nResound thro\u2019 all the world;\n\nMay Grace promote the glorious eause\n\nOf freedom, truth, and equal laws,\n\nTill love unite both Greek and Jew\n\nIn peace beneath the Banner blue!\n\nThis work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.\n\nPublic domainPublic domainfalsefalse","title":"Covenanters' coronal/The Banner Blue","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":411}