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Text:My Life Flows On in Endless Song
Author:Robert Lowry, 1826-1899
Tune:HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING
Harmonizer:David N. Johnson, 1922-1987

263. My Life Flows On in Endless Song

1 My life flows on in endless song;
above earth’s lamentation
I hear the real 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 heaven and earth,
how can I keep from singing?

2 Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear that music ringing;
it sounds and echoes in my soul.
How can I keep from singing? [Refrain]

3 What though the tempest loudly roar?
I hear the truth: it's living!
What though the darkness round me close?
Songs in the night it's giving. [Refrain]

4 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]

Text Information
First Line: My life flows on in endless song
Title: My Life Flows On in Endless Song
Author: Robert Lowry, 1826-1899 (alt.)
Refrain First Line: No storm can shake my inmost calm
Meter: 8.7.8.7. and refrain
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture:
Topic: Affirmation; Assurance; Calm (12 more...)
Tune Information
Name: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING
Harmonizer: David N. Johnson, 1922-1987
Meter: 8.7.8.7. and refrain
Key: G Major or modal
Source: Quaker melody
Copyright: Harm. © 1977 Prairie Publications, Inc.



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