How Can I Keep from Singing

My life flows on in endless song Amidst earth's lamentation I hear the real though far off hymn That hails a new creation Through all the tumult and the strife I hear the music ringing It sounds an echo in my soul How can I keep from singing? What though the tempest round me roars, I know the truth, it liveth, What 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? To prison cell and dungeon vile Our thoughts of love are winging With those who sing songs of lament How can I keep from singing? When tyrants tremble, sick with fear And hear their death knell ringing When friends rejoice both far and near 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 messianic peace my heart A fountain ever springing All things are mine since I am theirs How can I keep from singing?