How can I keep from singing? (Robert Lowry)

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  • (Posted 2019-07-29)  CPDL #54925:       
Editor: John Christensen (submitted 2019-07-29).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 253 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: How Can I Keep from Singing?
Composer: Robert Lowry
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SacredHymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1860
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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 sweet, though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation

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?
I know my Savior liveth
What though the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night he giveth.

No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that refuge clinging
Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth
How can I keep from singing?

I lift my eyes, the cloud grows thin
I see the blue above it
And day by day this pathway smooths,
Since first I learned to love it,

The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart
A fountain ever springing
For all things are mine since I am his
How can I keep from singing?