Forty days and forty nights (Charles Macpherson)

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• (Posted 2023-08-16)  CPDL #74886:   

Contributor: Jason Smart (submitted 2023-08-16).  Score information: A4, 1 page, 404 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Scanned from the original edition: "Varied Harmonies for Organ Accompaniment (and voices ad libitum) of Certain Tunes in Hymns Ancient And Modern" (William Clowes and Sons Limited, London, n.d. [c.1912])

General Information

Title: Forty days and forty nights
Composer: Anonymous
Arranger: Charles Macpherson
Lyricists: George Hunt Smyttan^{create page} and Francis Pott
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published: 1912 in Varied Harmonies for Organ Accompaniment (and voices ad libitum) of Certain Tunes in Hymns Ancient And Modern
Description: Varied harmonies for the hymn tune Aus der Tiefe (Heinlein).

Original text and translations

English 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.