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Thread #21447 Message #3943916
Posted By: GUEST,Observer
14-Aug-18 - 02:11 PM
Thread Name: Godless 'hymns' or Atheism Church Music?
Subject: RE: Godless 'hymns' or Atheism Church Music?
The Rev. Horatius Bonar's Only Remembered would fit the "Godless Hymn" part of the equation. His original words are as follows:
Only Remembered (Horatius Bonar 1870)
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.
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.
Refrain
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
No mention of God, or of religion.