marycatelli: (Galahad)
marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2015-02-18 07:23 am
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Forty days and forty nights

Forty days and forty nights
Thou wast fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, and yet undefiled.

Should not we Thy sorrow share
And from worldly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
Strong with Thee to suffer pain?

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