Forty days and forty nights
George Hunt Smyttan, 1856. To be sung to Heinlein.
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Forty days and forty nights Thou wast fasting in the wild; Forty days and forty nights Tempted, and yet undefiled.
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Shall not we thy sorrow share, And from earthly joys abstain, Fasting with unceasing prayer, Glad with thee to suffer pain?
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And if Satan, vexing sore, Flesh or spirit should assail, Thou, his vanquisher before, Grant we may not faint nor fail.
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So shall we have peace divine, Holier gladness ours shall be; Round us too shall angels shine, Such as ministered to thee.
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Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear, Ever constant by thy side; That with thee we may appear At the eternal Eastertide.