His life, how truly sad and brief,
Filled up with suffering and with grief!
3 If Satan tempt our hearts to stray,
And whisper evil things within,
So did he, in the desert way,
Assail our Lord with thoughts of sin;
When worn, and in a feeble hour,
The tempter came with all his power.
4 Just such as I, this earth he trod,
With every human ill but sin;