224 LET THE LOWER LIGHTS BE BURNING
[V1]
Brightly beams our Father’s mercy,
From His light-house ever more,
But to us He gives the keeping,
Of the lights along the shore.
Brightly beams our Father’s mercy,
From His light-house ever more,
But to us He gives the keeping,
Of the lights along the shore.
[C]
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman,
You may rescue, you may save.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman,
You may rescue, you may save.
[V2]
Dark the night of sin has settled,
Loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore.
Dark the night of sin has settled,
Loud the angry billows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights along the shore.
[C]
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman,
You may rescue, you may save.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman,
You may rescue, you may save.
[V3]
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother;
Some poor sailor tempest-tost;
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother;
Some poor sailor tempest-tost;
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.
[C]
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman,
You may rescue, you may save.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman,
You may rescue, you may save.