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VERSE 1
Forty days and forty nights,
You were fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights,
Tempted and yet undefiled.
VERSE 2
Shall not we your sorrow share,
And from worldly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing pray'r,
Strong with you to suffer pain?
VERSE 3
And if Satan, vexing sore,
Flesh or spirits should assail,
Thou, his vanquisher before,
Grant we may not faint nor fail.
VERSE 4
So shall we have peace divine.
Holier gladness ours shall be;
Round us too shall angels shine,
Such as ministered to Thee.
VERSE 5
Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
Ever constant by thy side,
That with thee we may appear
At the eternal Eastertide.
