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Let the lower Lights Be Burning

Words:
Philip Paul Bliss, 1838–1876
Music:
Philip Paul Bliss, 1838–1876

Sheet music

  1. 1Brightly beams our Father’s mercyFrom His lighthouse evermore,But to us He gives the keepingOf the lights along the shore.Let the lower lights be burning,Send a gleam across the wave!Some poor fainting, struggling seamanYou may rescue, you may save.
  2. 2Dark the night of sin has settled,Loud the angry billows roar;Eager eyes are watching, longingFor the lights along the shore.Let the lower lights be burning,Send a gleam across the wave!Some poor fainting, struggling seamanYou may rescue, you may save.
  3. 3Trim 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!Some poor fainting, struggling seamanYou may rescue, you may save.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1871, the words are in 685 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.

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