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Text: | Forty Days and Forty Nights |
Author: | George H. Smyttan, 1822-1870 |
Tune: | AUS DER TIEFE |
Composer (attributed to): | Martin Herbst, 1654-1681 |
Harmonizer: | J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 |
1 Forty days and forty nights
You were fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights,
Tempted, and yet undefiled.
2 Shall not we your sorrow share
And from worldly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
Strong with you to suffer pain?
3 Then, if Satan on us press,
Flesh or spirit to assail,
Victor in the wilderness,
Grant we may not faint nor fail!
4 So shall we have peace divine;
Holier gladness ours shall be.
Round us, too, shall angels shine,
Such as served You faithfully.
5 Keep, O keep us, Savior dear,
Ever constant by your side,
That with you we may appear
At th'eternal Eastertide.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Forty days and forty nights |
Title: | Forty Days and Forty Nights |
Author: | George H. Smyttan, 1822-1870 (alt.) |
Meter: | 77 77 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2015 |
Topic: | Lent |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AUS DER TIEFE |
Composer (attributed to): | Martin Herbst, 1654-1681 |
Harmonizer: | J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 |
Meter: | 77 77 |
Key: | d minor or modal |
Source: | Nürnbergisches Gesang-Buch, Nuremburg, 1676 |