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sleepyjon Origins: Only Remembered (46) RE: Lyr Req: Original hymn to 'Only Remembered' 23 Sep 08


This is all a bit old now, but I've just stumbled on "Only Remembered" in "Sacred Songs and Solos: Revised and Enlarged, with Standard Hymns. Twelve Hundred Pieces. Compiled under the Direction of Ira D. Sankey." Can't find any publication or printing date, but Sankey died in 1908(?).

The words of "Only Remembered" are ascribed to H Bonar D.D (alt.). - I'm guessing the "alt" means someone adapted them. They are as given by masato sakurai about five posts back with a few minor differences:

V1,1, "..stars of the morning"
V2,3 "Yes, but the sowers must pass . . "
   4, "Ever remembered . . "
V3,3, "These shall pass . .

The tune is also as MS gives - and in 4/4 (I prefer the "folk processed" triple time usually heard in clubs (in the UK that is))

But is the refrain after every verse "Always remembered, always remembered . . etc" or, after v3 for example, is it "Fruits of the harvest, fruits of the harvest, fruits of the harvest and what we have done"?

(Some of the above would be clearer if I could work out how to do italics or underlines for the changes - sorry!)

SJ


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