| Fading away like the stars of the morning,
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| Losing their light in the glorious sun--
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| Thus would we pass from the earth and its toiling,
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| Only remembered by what we have done.
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| Only remembered, only remembered,
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| Only remembered by what we have done;
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| Thus would we pass from the earth and its toiling,
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| Only remembered by what we have done.
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| 2 Shall we be miss’d though by others succeeded,
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| Reaping the fields we in springtime have sown?
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| No, for the sowers may pass from their labors,
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| Only remembered by what they have done.
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| 3 Only the truth that in life we have spoken,
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| Only the seed that on earth we have sown;
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| These shall pass onward when we are forgotten,
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| Fruits of the harvest and what we have done.
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| 4 Oh, when the Saviour shall make up His jewels,
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| When the bright crowns of rejoicing are won,
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| Then shall His weary and faithful disciples,
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| All be remembered by what they have done. |