Forty Days and Forty Nights

Verse 1

Forty days and forty nights You were fasting in the wild; Forty days and forty nights Tempted, and yet undefiled.

Verse 2

Sunbeams scorching all the day; Chilly dew-drops nightly shed; Prowling beasts about your way; Stones your pillow; earth your bed.

Verse 3

Shall not we your sorrow share, And from earthly joys abstain, Fasting with unceasing prayer, Glad with you to suffer pain?

Verse 4

And if Satan, vexing sore, Flesh or spirit should assail, Christ, his vanquisher before, Grant we may not faint or fail.

Verse 5

So shall we have peace divine; Holier gladness ours be due; Round us, too, shall angels shine, Such as ministered to you.

Verse 6

Keep, oh, keep us, Savior dear, Ever constant at your side; That we may with you appear In your resurrection-tide.