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Let the Lower Lights Be Burning

Words and music by Philip Bliss · 1871

Key of F · 88 BPM · 4/4 · Mission,Hope · Matthew 5:16

Verse 1

Brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore,
but to us he gives the keeping of the lights along the shore.

Chorus

Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman you may rescue, you may save.

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