Only Remembered

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.

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.

Shall we be missed though by oth­ers suc­ceed­ed

Reaping the fields we in spring­time have sown?

No

for the sow­ers may pass from their la­bors

Only re­mem­bered by what they have done.

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.