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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 prayer,
Strong with you to suffer pain?
VERSE 3
Then, if Satan on us press,
Flesh or spirit to assail,
Victor in the wilderness
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 served you faithfully.
VERSE 5
Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
Ever constant by your side,
That with you we may appear
At th'eternal Eastertide.
