Forty days and forty nights - Anonymous

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"Melody from ''Nürnbergisches Gesangbuch'', 1676. A descant to the hymn can be found Heinlein (Alan Gray)."

◈ Genre / Form → Hymns

♯ Key D minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G2 – C5

¶ Language → English

Measures 16

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments A cappella or keyboard

Pages 1

CPDL # 62207

Editor Andrew Sims

Posted 2021-01-02

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Midi_74

G2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

Forty days and forty nights thou wast fasting in the wild; forty days and forty nights tempted, and yet undefiled: sunbeams scorching all the day; chilly dew-drops nightly shed; prowling beasts about thy way; stones thy pillow, earth thy bed. Shall not we thy sorrows 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. So shall we have peace divine; holier gladness ours shall be; round us too shall angels shine, such as ministered to thee. Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear, ever constant by thy side; that with thee we may appear at the eternal Eastertide.