How Can I Keep from Singing

1.

My life flows on in endless song

Above earth’s lamentation.

I hear the real though far-off hymn

That hails a new creation.

Refrain

No storm can shake my inmost calm,

While to that rock I’m clinging.

Since Love is Lord of heaven and earth,

How can I keep from singing?

2.

Through all the tumult and the strife,

I hear that music ringing;

it sounds and echoes in my soul;

How can I keep from singing?

3.

What though the tempest ’round me roar,

I hear the truth, it liveth;

What though the darkness ’round me close,

songs in the night it giveth.

4.

When tyrants tremble, sick with fear,

And hear their death knells ringing;

when friends rejoice both far and near,

How can I keep from singing?

5.

The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,

A fountain ever springing.

All things are mine since I am his;

How can I keep from singing?