let the lower light be burning
Singer:burl ives
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!
dark the night of sin has settled
loud the angry billows roar
for the lights along the shore
let the lower lights be burning!
send a gleam across the wave!
trying now to make the harbor
in the darkness may be lost
let the lower lights be burning!
send a gleam across the wave!