Brightly beams our Father’s mercy

from His lighthouse evermore,

But to us He gives the keeping

of the lights along the shore.

Refrain

Let the lower lights be burning

send a gleam across the waves,

Some poor fainting, struggling seaman

may be one that God has saved.

Dark the night of sin has settled,

loud the angry billows roar.

Eager eyes are watching, longing,

for the lights along the shore.

Refrain

Trim your feeble lamps my brothers,

through the darkness we shall come,

God will lead us to the harbor

and will guide us safely home.

Refrain

God now rules the earth in Judgment,

for the lost, their fate is sealed.

But the saved, He draws them homeward,

by the light He has revealed.

Refrain

Ending

Let the lower lights be burning

send a gleam across the waves,

Some poor fainting, struggling seaman

may be one that God has saved.