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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

The Pilgrim

John Bunyan (1628–1688)

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 avow’d 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;

But 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 not fear what men say;

He’ll labour, night and day,

To be a Pilgrim.