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How Can I Keep From Singing? (Patrick O'Shea)
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General Information
Title: How Can I Keep From Singing?
Composer: Patrick O'Shea
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: TT, opt. B, piano
Published: 1999
Description: Mostly 2- and 3-voice texture, primarly TT, with an optional B part at the end.
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Original text and translations
English text
My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth’s lamentation
I hear the clear, though far off hymn
That hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I’m clinging.
Since love is Lord of heav’n and earth,
How can I keep from singing?
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear that music ringing.
It finds an echo in my soul
How can I keep from singing?
What though my joys and comforts die?
The Lord my Savior liveth;
What though the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night He giveth:
No storm…
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?
No storm…
