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Text:Forty days and forty nights
Author (attributed to):George Hunt Smyttan 1822-1870
Tune:AUS DER TIEFE
Composer (attributed to):Martin Herbst 1654-1681
Harmonizer:Willliam Henry Monk, 1823-1889

197. Forty days and forty nights

1 Forty days and forty nights
thou wast fasting in the wild;
forty days and forty nights
tempted, and yet undefiled:

2 Should not we thy sorrow share
and from worldly joys abstain,
fasting with unceasing prayer,
strong with thee to suffer pain?

3 Then if Satan on us press,
Jesus, Saviour, hear our call!
Victor in the wilderness,
grant we may not faint nor fall!

4 So shall we have peace divine;
holier gladness ours shall be;
round us, too, shall angels shine,
such as ministered to thee.

5 Keep, oh keep us, Saviour dear,
ever constant by thy side;
that with thee we may appear
at the eternal Eastertide.

Text Information
First Line: Forty days and forty nights
Title: Forty days and forty nights
Author (attributed to): George Hunt Smyttan 1822-1870
Meter: 7 7 7 7
Language: English
Publication Date: 1997
Scripture:
Topic: Church Year: Lent; Gladness / Happiness; Jesus Christ: Temptation of (2 more...)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: AUS DER TIEFE
Composer (attributed to): Martin Herbst 1654-1681
Harmonizer: Willliam Henry Monk, 1823-1889
Meter: 7 7 7 7
Key: d minor or modal
Copyright: Public Domain



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