My life flows on in endless song  Above earth's lamentation.  I hear the real though far-off hymn  That hails a new creation.  No storm can shake my inmost calm  While to that rock I'm clinging  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?    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;  All things are mine since I am his,  How can I keep from singing?