Is Your Lamp Burning? WINDHAM—Daniel Read Is Your Lamp Burning? 1 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. 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