august

The Royal Banners Forward Go [#TheRoyalBanners #RoyalBanners #TheRoyalBannersForwardGo #RoyalBannersForwardGo #BannersForwardGo #ForwardGo]

Song written by:
Original in Latin: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus [Venantius Fortunatus] (530, Venetia, Kingdom of the Ostrogoths – 609
Pictavium, Kingdom of the Franks)
Translated to English from Latin: John Mason Neale [J. M. Neale] (January 24, 1818, London, England, UK – August 6, 1866, East Grinstead, West Sussex, England, UK)

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The royal banners forward go
The cross shines forth in mystic glow
Where He in flesh our flesh who made
Our sentence bore our ransom paid

2
Where deep for us the spear was dyed
Life’s torrent rushing from His side
To wash us in that precious flood
Where mingled water flowed and blood

3
Fulfilled is all that David told
In true prophetic song of old
Amidst the nations God saith he
Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree

4
O tree of beauty tree of light
O tree with royal purple dight
Elect on whose triumphal breast
Those holy limbs should find their rest

5
Blest tree whose chosen branches bore
The wealth that did the world restore
The price of humankind to pay
And spoil the spoiler of his prey

6
Upon its arms like balance true
He weighed the price for sinners due
The price which none but He could pay
And spoiled the spoiler of his prey

7
O cross our one reliance hail
Still may thy power with us avail
To give new virtue to the saint
And pardon to the penitent

8
To Thee eternal Three in One
Let homage meet by all be done
As by the cross Thou dost restore
So rule and guide us evermore

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