{"slug": "forty-days-and-forty-nights", "title": "Forty Days and Forty Nights", "first_line": "Forty days and forty nights, Thou wast fasting in the wild", "index_first_line": "Forty days and forty nights", "author": "george-hunt-smyttan", "author_date": "1856", "adapter": "francis-pott", "adapter_date": "1861", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 7, 7, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Lent", "Temptation", "Discipleship", "Angels"], "scripture": ["Matthew 4:1-11", "Mark 1:12-13", "Hebrews 4:15"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "George Hunt Smyttan, in The Penny Post, March 1856; the common six-stanza form derives from Francis Pott's revision (Hymns fitted to the Order of Common Prayer, 1861; d. 1909). Text from The Cyber Hymnal, cross-checked against Hymnary.org (same six stanzas; its representative text is a modern you-form revision) and against pre-1931 hymnal printings. Stanza 6's last line is imported in the elided seven-syllable form \"At th'eternal Eastertide\" as printed in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, verified in the 1861 and 1869 page scans); the Cyber Hymnal page prints the un-elided eight-syllable \"At the eternal Eastertide\", which cannot be sung to the tune's seven notes. All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "forty_days_and_forty_nights_thou_wast", "total_instances": 168}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "For -- ty days and for -- ty nights Thou wast fast -- ing in the wild; For -- ty days and for -- ty nights Temp -- ted, and yet un -- de -- filed.", "prose": ["Forty days and forty nights", "Thou wast fasting in the wild;", "Forty days and forty nights", "Tempted, and yet undefiled."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Sun -- beams scorch -- ing all the day; Chil -- ly dew -- drops night -- ly shed; Prowl -- ing beasts a -- bout Thy way; Stones Thy pil -- low; earth Thy bed.", "prose": ["Sunbeams scorching all the day;", "Chilly dewdrops nightly shed;", "Prowling beasts about Thy way;", "Stones Thy pillow; earth Thy bed."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Should not we Thy sor -- row share And from world -- ly joys ab -- stain, Fast -- ing with un -- ceas -- ing prayer, Strong with Thee to suf -- fer pain?", "prose": ["Should not we Thy sorrow share", "And from worldly joys abstain,", "Fasting with unceasing prayer,", "Strong with Thee to suffer pain?"]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Then if Sa -- tan on us press, Je -- sus, Sav -- ior, hear our call! Vic -- tor in the wil -- der -- ness, Grant we may not faint nor fall!", "prose": ["Then if Satan on us press,", "Jesus, Savior, hear our call!", "Victor in the wilderness,", "Grant we may not faint nor fall!"]}, "5": {"syllabified": "So shall we have peace di -- vine: Ho -- lier glad -- ness ours shall be; Round us, too, shall an -- gels shine, Such as min -- is -- tered to Thee.", "prose": ["So shall we have peace divine:", "Holier gladness ours shall be;", "Round us, too, shall angels shine,", "Such as ministered to Thee."]}, "6": {"syllabified": "Keep, O keep us, Sav -- ior dear, Ev -- er con -- stant by Thy side; That with Thee we may ap -- pear At th'e -- ter -- nal Eas -- ter -- tide.", "prose": ["Keep, O keep us, Savior dear,", "Ever constant by Thy side;", "That with Thee we may appear", "At th'eternal Eastertide."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}