1 Forty days and forty nights
you wast fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, and yet undefiled.
2 Sunbeams scorching all the day,
chilly dewdrops nightly shed;
prowling beasts about your way;
stones your pillow, earth your bed.
3 Shall not we your trial share,
And from earthly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
strong with you to suffer pain?
43 If temptations, vexing sore,
Flesh or spirit should assail,
you their Vanquisher before,
Grant we may not faint or fail.
5 Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
Ever constant by your side;
That with you we may appear
At th' eternal Eastertide.
