Building for Eternity (Sargent)

We are build­ing in sor­row or joy

A tem­ple the world may not see

Which time can­not mar nor de­stroy:

We build for eter­nity.

We are build­ing ev­ery day

A tem­ple the world may not see

Building

build­ing ev­ery day

Building for eter­ni­ty.

Every thought that we’ve ever had

Its own lit­tle place has filled;

Every deed we have done

good or bad

Is a stone in the tem­ple we build.

Every word that so light­ly falls

Giving some heart joy or pain

Will shine in our tem­ple walls

Or ev­er its beau­ty stain.

Are you build­ing for God alone?

Are you build­ing in faith and love

A tem­ple the Fa­ther will own

In the ci­ty of light above?