Forty Days And Forty Nights [#FortyDays #FortyNights #FortyDaysAndFortyNights]
Forty Days And Forty Nights [#FortyDays #FortyNights #FortyDaysAndFortyNights]
Song written by:
Original in English: George Hunt Smyttan [George H. Smyttan] (Bombay / Mumbai, India, 1822 – Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, 1870)
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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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Sunbeams scorching all the day
Chilly dew-drops nightly shed
Prowling beasts about Thy way
Stones Thy pillow earth Thy bed
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Should not we Thy sorrow share
And from worldly joys abstain
Fasting with unceasing prayer
Strong with Thee to suffer pain
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Then if Satan on us press
Jesus Savior hear our call
Victor in the wilderness
Grant we may not faint nor fall
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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 Savior dear
Ever constant by Thy side
That with Thee we may appear
At the eternal Eastertide
Forty Days And Forty Nights [#FortyDays #FortyNights #FortyDaysAndFortyNights]