Let the Lower Lights Be Burning

Words and music: Philip Paul Bliss, 1871

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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.
    Let the lower lights be burning! 
       Send a gleam across the wave!
    For to us He gives the keeping 
       of the lights along the shore.

 2  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.

 3  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.

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