George Bennard (1873-1958) wrote the hymn The Old Rugged Cross, 1913, which included:
<I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.> 1873GB001
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Endnotes:
1873GB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). George Bennard, 1913, in the hymn he composed titled, The Old Rugged Cross. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 738.