When All is Said and Done

When all is said and done

When faint hearts flee from under the sun

When all fates their courses run

All that shakes shall tumble down

All that can be felled shall fall to the ground

All that breathes air so sweet shall drown

if naught to save can be found

Then what's true will show it's strength

Whose hope founded firmly shall not falter

While hope falsly grounded will flounder

For hope tried and true

Will be a shining refuge,

a sign of promise and of faith

to all who in it remain

But hope of falsity comes to naught

for only truth withstands in trial

and those who stood on sand flee in terror

So to ruin crumbles the hope they past sought