| Text: | Forty days and forty nights |
| Author: | George Hunt Smyttan (1822-1870) |
| Author: | Francis Pott (1832-1909) |
| Tune: | AUS DER TIEFE (HEINLEIN) |
| Composer (possible): | Martin 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 dewdrops 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.
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| First Line: | Forty days and forty nights |
| Author: | George Hunt Smyttan (1822-1870) |
| Author: | Francis Pott (1832-1909) |
| Meter: | 77 77 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Scripture: | ; ; |
| Topic: | Angels; Ash Wednesday; Church Year: Lent (7 more...) |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | AUS DER TIEFE (HEINLEIN) |
| Composer (possible): | Martin Herbst (1654-1681) |
| Meter: | 77 77 |
| Key: | d minor |
| Source: | Melody by 'M.H.' in Nürnbergisches Gesangbuch, 1676 |
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