text: My life goes on in endless song
  Above earths lamentation
  I hear the real, though far off hymn
  That hails the new creation
  What though the tempest loudly roars
  I hear the truth, it lives
  What though the darkness round me close
  Songs in the night, it gives
  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?
  No storm can shake my inmost calm
  While to that rock Im clinging
  Since love is Lord in Heaven and Earth
  How can I keep from singing?