This is a Lenten hymn written by George Hunt Smyttan and altered by Francis Pott set to HEINLEIN attributed to Martin Herbst.
I had a go at from OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book some years ago, but this time it is done as an organ backing on BIAB. The text below varies from others I have seen but is what is in this hymnal.
1 Forty days and forty nights
You were fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, and yet undefiled.2 Shall not we your trial share
And from earthly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
Glad with you to suffer pain?3 And if Satan, on us press
Flesh or spirit to assail,
Victor in the wilderness,
Grant we may not faint or fail.4 So shall we have peace divine;
Holier gladness ours shall be;
Round us too shall angels shine,
Such as served you faithfully.5 Guard and keep us, Saviour dear,
Ever constant by your side;
That with you we may appear
At the eternal Eastertide.
