'How Can I Keep from Singing' lyrics

'How Can I Keep from Singing' lyrics

Here are the lyrics to the hymn 'How Can I Keep from Singing'

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Published: May 11, 2023 at 5:52 pm

We din't know who wrote the hymn 'How Can I Keep from Singing' (also known as 'My Life Flows On in Endless Song') but it is thought to have folk origins and date back to around the mid-19th century. Today it is a popular Quaker hymn.

'How Can I Keep from Singing' lyrics

My life flows on in endless song, above earth’s lamentation. I catch the sweet, 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 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? [Refrain]

What though my joys and comforts die, I know my Savior liveth. What though the darkness gather round? Songs in the night he giveth. [Refrain]

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? [Refrain]

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