Description
A sturdy hymn-anthem using Winfred Douglas's tune ST. DUNSTANS with optional congregational singing on the first and third stanzas. with John Bunyan's historic text (as adapted by Percy Dearmer in the 1906 English Hymnal)
Anthem text
He who would valiant be
'gainst all disaster,
let him in constancy
follow the Master.
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 foes shall stay his might,
though he with giants fight;
he will make good his right
to be a pilgrim.
Since, Lord, thou dost defend
us with thy Spirit
we know we at the end
shall life inherit.
Then fancies, flee away!
I’ll fear not what men say,
I’ll labor night and day
to be a pilgrim.
–John Bunyan, 1684, adapt. Percy Dearmer, 1906
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