Forty Days And Forty Nights
- Words:
- George H. Smyttan
- Music:
- Martin Herbst
Sheet music
- 1Forty days and forty nightsThou wast fasting in, the wild;Forty days and forty nightsTempted, and yet undefiled.Sunbeams scorching all the day;Chilly dewdrops nightly shed;Prowling beasts about Thy way;Stones Thy pillow, earth Thy bed.
- 2Shall not we Thy sorrow share,And from earthly joys abstain,Fasting with unceasing prayer,Glad with Thee to suffer pain?And if Satan, vexing sore,Flesh or spirit should assail,Thou, his vanquisher before,Grant we may not faint nor fail.
- 3Keep, O keep us, Savior clear,Ever constant by Thy side;That with Thee we may appearAt th’eternal Eastertide.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1856, the words are in 172 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
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