LYRICS
| Meter: | 11 10 11 10 and refrain
| | Writer(s): | Horatius Bonar
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| | Dates: |
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 45:17
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
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| 798
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MUSIC
| Name: | ONLY REMEMBERED
| | Meter: | 11 10 11 10 and refrain
| | Writer(s): | Ira David Sankey
| | Dates: |
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Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 798
| Eb
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| 1. Fading away like the stars
of the morning,
Losing their light
in the glorious sun—
Thus would we pass from the
earth and its toiling,
Only remembered
by what we have done.
Refrain.
Only remembered,
only remembered,
Only remembered
by what we have done;
Thus would we pass
from the earth and its toiling,
Only remembered
by what we have done.
2. Shall we be missed,
though by others succeeded,
Reaping the fields we
in springtime have sown?
Yes; but the sowers
must pass from their labours,
Ever remembered
by what they have done.
Refrain.
Only remembered,
only remembered,
Only remembered
by what we have done;
Thus would we pass
from the earth and its toiling,
Only remembered
by what we have done.
3. Only the truth that
in life we have spoken,
Only the seed
that on earth we have sown;
These shall pass onward
when we are forgotten,
Fruits of the harvest
and what we have done.
Refrain.
Only remembered,
only remembered,
Only remembered
by what we have done;
Thus would we pass
from the earth and its toiling,
Only remembered
by what we have done.
4. Oh, when the Saviour
shall make up His jewels,
When the bright crowns
of rejoicing are won,
Then shall His weary
and faithful disciples
All be remembered
by what they have done.
Refrain.
Only remembered,
only remembered,
Only remembered
by what we have done;
Thus would we pass
from the earth and its toiling,
Only remembered
by what we have done.
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