Text: | Forty days and forty nights |
Author: | G. H. Smyttan, 1822-1870 |
Author: | Francis Pott, 1832-1909 |
Tune: | AUS DER TIEFE (HEINLEIN) |
Composer (attributed to): | M. Herbst, 1654-1681 |
1 Forty days and forty nights
thou wast fasting in the wild;
forty days and forty nights
tempted, and yet undefiled:
2 Sunbeams scorching all the day;
chilly dew-drops nightly shed;
prowling beasts about thy way;
stones thy pillow, earth thy bed.
3 Shall not we thy sorrows share,
and from earthly joys abstain,
fasting with unceasing prayer,
glad with thee to suffer pain?
4 And if Satan, vexing sore,
flesh or spirit should assail,
thou, his vanquisher before,
grant we may not faint nor fail.
5 So shall we have peace divine;
holier gladness ours shall be;
round us too shall angels shine,
such as ministered to thee.
6 Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
ever constant by thy side;
that with thee we may appear
at the eternal Eastertide.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Forty days and forty nights |
Author: | G. H. Smyttan, 1822-1870 |
Author: | Francis Pott, 1832-1909 |
Meter: | 77 77 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2000 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Lent; Ash Wednesday; Lent I: Year A(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AUS DER TIEFE (HEINLEIN) |
Composer (attributed to): | M. Herbst, 1654-1681 |
Meter: | 77 77 |
Key: | d minor |
Source: | 'M. H.' in Nürnbergisches Gesangbuch, 1676 |