Forty Days and Forty Nights

Performed by St George’s Cathedral Consort at St George's Cathedral in Southwark, London.
Jonathan Schranz - Director of Music
Alex Wilson - Cathedral Organist
Words by George Hunt Smyttan
Music by Martin Herbst
Lyrics:
Forty days and forty nights
Thou wast fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, still yet unbeguiled.
Sunbeams scorching all the day,
Chilly dewdrops nightly shed
Prowling beasts about thy way
Stones thy pillow, earth thy bed.
Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
Ever constant by thy side,
That with thee we may appear
At th'eternal Eastertide.
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