1 Lord, who through forty days
for us did fast and pray,
teach us with you to mourn our sins,
and at your side to stay.

2 As you with Satan did contend,
and did the victory win,
oh give us strength to persevere,
in you to conquer sin.

3 As thirst and hunger once you bore,
so teach us, gracious Lord,
to die to self, and daily live
by your most holy word.

4 And through these days of penitence,
and through the Passion-tide,
now, evermore, in life and death,
Lord Christ, with us abide.

5 Abide with us, that so this life
of suffering over-past,
an Easter of unending joy
we may attain at last.