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Text:Forty Days and Forty Nights
Author:Goerge H. Smyttan, 1822-1870
Tune:HEINLEIN
Composer (attributed to):Martin Herbst, 1655-1681
Harmonizer (attributed to):J. S. Bach, 1685-1750

419. Forty Days and Forty Nights

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
First Line: Forty days and forty nights
Title: Forty Days and Forty Nights
Author: Goerge H. Smyttan, 1822-1870 (alt.)
Meter: 7 7 7 7
Publication Date: 1986
Scripture: ;
Topic: Lent 1, Year A; Lent 1, Year C; Ash Wednesday (8 more...)
Tune Information
Name: HEINLEIN
Composer (attributed to): Martin Herbst, 1655-1681
Harmonizer (attributed to): J. S. Bach, 1685-1750
Meter: 7 7 7 7
Key: d minor



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