How can I keep from singing? (Patrick O'Shea)

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Editor: Patrick O'Shea (submitted 2008-12-01).   Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 120 kbytes   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: How Can I Keep From Singing?
Composer: Patrick O'Shea

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: TT, opt. B, piano
Published: 1999

Description: Mostly 2- and 3-voice texture, primarly TT, with an optional B part at the end.

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Original text and translations

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My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth’s lamentation
I hear the clear, though far off hymn
That hails a new creation.

No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I’m clinging.
Since love is Lord of heav’n and earth,
How can I keep from singing?

Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear that music ringing.
It finds an echo in my soul
How can I keep from singing?

What though my joys and comforts die?
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What though the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night He giveth:
No storm…
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?
No storm…