How Can I Keep From Singing

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My life flows on in endless song above earth's lamentation
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I hear the sweet, though far off hymn...that hails a new creation
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Through all the tumult and the strife...I hear it's music ringing
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It sounds an echo in my soul, how can I keep from singing?


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What though my joys and comforts die? I know my Savior liveth.
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What though the darkness round me close, songs in the night He giveth
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No storm can shake my inmost calm...while to that refuge clinging
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Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing?


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I lift my eyes, the cloud grows thin, I see the blue above it
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And day by day this pathway smoothes, since first I learned to love it
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The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, a fountain ever springing
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All things are mine since I am His...how can I keep from singing?