The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy

by Philip Paul Bliss

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Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy

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(LOWER LIGHTS. 8, 7, 8, 7. With Refrain)

Philip P. Bliss, 1877

Philip P. Bliss, 1877

1. 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 wave!
   Some poor fainting, struggling sea-man
   You may rescue, you may save.
   
2. Dark the night of sin has settled,
   Loud the angry billows roar;
   Eager eyes are watching longing
   For the lights along the shore
   Refrain
   
3. Trim your feeble lamp my brother
   Some poor sailor, tempest tossed
   Trying now to make the harbor,
   In the darkness may be lost,
   Refrain
   
   Amen