Forty Days and Forty Nights

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Forty days and forty nights, Thou wast fasting in the wild

Author: George Hunt Smyttan (1856)
Tune: HEINLEIN
Published in 159 hymnals

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1. Forty days and forty nights
You were 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 your way;
Stones your pillow; earth your bed.

3. Shall not we your sorrow share,
And from earthly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
Glad with you to suffer pain?

4. And if Satan, vexing sore,
Flesh or spirit should assail,
Christ, his vanquisher before,
Grant we may not faint or fail.

5. So shall we have peace divine;
Holier gladness ours be due;
Round us, too, shall angels shine,
Such as ministered to you.

6. Keep, oh, keep us, Savior dear,
Ever constant at your side;
That we may with you appear
In your resurrection-tide.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #86b

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Author: George Hunt Smyttan

George Hunt Smyttan studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. 1845. He was ordained Deacon in 1848, Priest in 1849, and appointed Rector of Hawksworth in 1850. He has published some small volumes of poetry. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Forty days and forty nights, Thou wast fasting in the wild
Title:	Forty Days and Forty Nights
Author:	George Hunt Smyttan (1856)
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Year A, Lent, Ash Wednesday
This is recommended for Year A, Lent, Ash Wednesday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #167.
Year A, Lent, First Sunday
This is recommended for Year A, Lent, First Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #167.
Year A, Lent, First Sunday
Related to Matthew 4 (NPM)
Year B, Lent, First Sunday
This is recommended for Year B, Lent, First Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes.
Year C, Lent, First Sunday
This is recommended for Year C, Lent, First Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #167.
Year C, Lent, First Sunday

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Forty days and forty nights. G. H. Smyttan. [Lent.] First published in the Penny Post, March, 1856 (vol. vi. p. 60), in 9 stanzas of 4 lines, headed "Poetry for Lent; As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing," and signed "G. H. S." In 1861, 6 stanzas were given with alterations in the Rev. F. Pott's Hymns, &c, and repeated in Hymns Ancient & Modern 1861-75; Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881, and others. Other slightly altered texts are given in the Sarum Hymnal, 1868; the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns, 1871, and others. This hymn has extended to a few American collections.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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HEINLEIN

AUS DER TIEFE (also called HEINLEIN) was published in the Nürnbergisches Gesang-Buch (1676-77) as a setting for Christoph Schwamlein's text based on Psalm 130 "Aus der Tiefe rufe ich" ("Out of the Depths I Cry"). In that songbook the tune was attributed to "M. H.," initials that are generally acce…

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