Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
Authors: Philip P. Bliss • Composers: Philip P. Bliss • Meter: 8.7.8.7. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1871 • Special Collections: Nautical
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1. Brightly beams our Father’s mercy
From His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore.
(Chorus) Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save.
2. Dark the night of sin has settled,
Loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore.
3. Trim your feeble lamp my brother:
Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed,
Trying now to reach the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.