Author: P. P. Bliss Hymnal: Minnetonka Songs #71 (1879) Hymnal Title: Minnetonka Songs First Line: Brightly beams Our Father's mercy Refrain First Line: Let the lower lights be burning! Lyrics: 1 Brightly beams Our Father’s mercy
From his Light-House 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. [Chorus]
3 Trim your feeble lamp, my brother,
Some poor sailor, tempest-tost,
Trying now to make the harbor
In the darkness, may be lost. [Chorus]
Languages: English Tune Title: [Brightly beams Our Father's mercy]
Let the Lower Lights be Burning