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Thread #120485 Message #2621080
Posted By: Mr Happy
29-Apr-09 - 06:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: To be a Pilgrim:Secular Hymn?
Subject: Lyr Add: TO BE A PILGRIM (John Bunyan)
Here's one of the few examples of a Christian hymn which doesn't have any mention of god or Christ in its original form
To be a pilgrim John Bunyan, PilĀgrim's ProgĀress, 1684
Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is. No lion can him fright, He'll with a giant fight, He will have a right To be a pilgrim.
Hobgoblin nor foul fiend Can daunt his spirit, He knows he at the end Shall life inherit. Then fancies fly away, He'll fear not what men say, He'll labour night and day To be a pilgrim.
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Percy Dearmer modified it in 1906 to add a more religious flavour