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Ellen M. H. Gates

C. C. Williams

Alvin (Bud) Herman Manz in 2024

Say, is your lamp burning my brother?
I pray you look quickly and see;
For if it were burning, then surely
Some beam would fall brightly on me.
There are many and many around you,
Who follow wherever you go,
If you thought that they walk’d in the shadow,
Your lamp would burn brighter, I know.

Upon the dark mountains they stumble,
They are bruised on the rocks and they lie
With white, pleading faces turn’d upward,
To the clouds and the pitiful sky,
There is many a lamp that is lighted
We behold them anear and afar;
But not many among them, my brother,
Shine steadily on like a star.

If once all the lamps that are lighted
Should steadily blaze in a line,
Wide over the land and the ocean,
What a girdle of glory would shine!
How all the dark places would brighten!
How the mists would roll up and away!
How the earth would laugh out in her gladness,
To hail the millennial day!

Chorus:
Say, is your lamp burning, my brother?
I pray you look quickly and see;
For if it were burning, then surely
Some beam would fall brightly on me!