#25 - Let the Lower Lights be Burning

Composer:
- Philip Paul Bliss
  (1838-1876), 1871
Also known as:
- Brightly Beams our Father's Mercy
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Lyrics:
Brightly beams our Father's mercy from His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping of the lights along the shore.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor struggling, sinking sailor you may rescue, you may save.

Dark the night of sin has settled, loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore.

Trim your feeble lamp, my brother, some poor sailor tempest tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor, in the darkness may be lost.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Trying now to make the harbor, some poor sailor may be lost.
- Philip Paul Bliss
  (1838-1876), 1871
See also:
- #3010 - Let the Lower Lights be Burning