My life flows on in endless song
above earth’s lamentations,
I hear the real, though far-off hymn
that hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm,
while to that rock I’m clinging.
it sounds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?
While though the tempest loudly roars,
I know the truth, it liveth.
And though the darkness ’round me close,
songs in the night it giveth.
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?
I life my eyes, the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it;
And day by day this pathway smoothes,
Since first I learned to love it.
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?