Forty days and forty nights
Forty days and forty nights. George Hunt Smyttan* (1822-1870) and Francis Pott* (1832-1909).
This is a re-writing by Pott of a poem in nine stanzas by ‘G. H. S.’ (George Hunt Smyttan, a Nottinghamshire vicar) published in a religious magazine, the Penny Post (March 1856), with the title ‘Poetry for Lent: As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing’.
This hymn is known principally in the version altered by Francis Pott and printed in his Hymns Fitted to the Order of Common Prayer (1861), and used in the First Edition of A&M in the same year. The texts were as follows:
Smyttan, 1856 A&M, 1861...
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