Minnetonka Songs ‎#71

71. Let the Lower Lights be Burning

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]

Text Information

• First Line: Brightly beams Our Father's mercy
• Title: Let the Lower Lights be Burning
• Author: P. P. Bliss
• Refrain First Line: Let the lower lights be burning!
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1879
• Notes: Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: [Brightly beams Our Father's mercy]
• Composer: P. P. Bliss
• Key: B♭ Major
• Notes: Public Domain.