New Obedience
He Who Would Valiant Be
- Words:
- John Bunyan, 1684. Modified by Percy Dearmer, 1906.
- Music:
- 'Monks Gate' traditional English.
- Setting:
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1904.
- Metre:
- 11 11 12 11
- 1He who would valiant be 'gainst all disaster,Let him in constancy follow the Master.There's no discouragement shall make him once relentHis first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
- 2Who so beset him round with dismal storiesDo 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.
- 3Since, 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.
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In the hymnals
- The tune, Monks Gate, is in 78 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.