Text: | Forty Days and Forty Nights |
Author: | George Hunt Smyttan |
Tune: | AUS DER TIEFE RUFE ICH |
Composer (attr. to): | Martin Herbst |
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 the eternal Eastertide.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Forty days and forty nights |
Title: | Forty Days and Forty Nights |
Author: | George Hunt Smyttan (1856; alt.) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | ; |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | AUS DER TIEFE RUFE ICH |
Composer (attr. to): | Martin Herbst (1676) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 |
Key: | d minor |