How Can I Keep from Singing
ENDLESS SONG
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?
Text: 87 87 with refrain; attr. to Robert Lowry, 1826–1899, alt.; verse 3, Doris
Plenn. Music: Quaker Hymn; attr. to Robert Lowry.