Sirach 44:8-10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ There are some of them who have left a name,
    so that men declare their praise.
⁹ And there are some who have no memorial,
    who have perished as though they had not lived;
they have become as though they had not been born,
    and so have their children after them.
¹⁰ But these were men of mercy,
    whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten;