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What I Have Done

Author: Horatius Bonar; Richard W. Adams Meter: 12.10.12.10 Appears in 102 hymnals First Line: Up and away, like the dew of the morning Lyrics: 1 Up and away, like the dew of the morning, Soaring from earth to its home in the sun, So let me steal away, gently and lovingly, Only remembered by what I have done. 2 My name and place, and my grave, all forgotten, My time’s brief race well and patiently run; So let me pass away, peacefully, silently, Only remembered by what I have done. 3 Gladly away from this toil would I hasten, Up to the crown that for me has been won; Unsung on earth in rewards or in praises, Only remembered by what I have done. 4 Up and away like the odors of sunset, Sweetening the twilight as darkness comes on, So be my life, something felt but not noticed, Only remembered by what I have done. 5 Yes, like the fragrance that wanders in freshness, Blossoms it came from all closed up and gone, So would I be to this world’s weary dwellers, Only remembered by what I have done. 6 Need there be praise of the love-written record? Name and an epitaph graven on stone? Things I have lived for, let them be my story, I but remembered by what I have done. 7 I need no shrine, if I have been bearing, As summer, autumn, move silently on, The bloom, the fruit and the seed of their season; I’ll be remembered by what I have done. 8 No cause need fail, if another succeed me, Reaping the fields which in spring I have sown; Plower and sower not missed by the reaper, Only remembered by what I have done. 9 No, not myself, but the truth I have spoken, No, not myself, but the seed I have sown, Pass down the ages, my name all forgotten, Only the truth, and the things I have done. 10 As was my living, so be my dying; So let my name lie, unblazoned, unknown; Unpraised, unmissed, I shall still be remembered, For God records all the things I have done. Used With Tune: MONSELL Text Sources: Hymns of Faith and Hope (London: James Lisbet, 1857)