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"To Be a Pilgrim", also known as "He Who Would Valiant Be", is an English Christian hymn using words of John Bunyan in The Pilgrim's Progress, first appearing in Part 2 of The Pilgrim's Progress, written in 1684. An alternative variation of the words was produced by Percy Dearmer in 1906.
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan.It is commonly regarded as one of the most significant works of Protestant devotional literature and of wider early modern English literature.
John Bunyan (/ ˈ b ʌ n j ə n /; 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model.
As a judge and Arizona legislator, a cancer survivor and child of the Texas plains, Sandra Day O'Connor was like the pilgrim in the poem she sometimes quoted – forging a new path and building a ...
The poem describes the journey of a "gallant knight" in search of the legendary city of El Dorado. [1] The knight spends much of his life on this quest.In his old age, he finally meets a "pilgrim shadow" who points the way through "the Valley of Shadow".
A blacksmith courted me, nine months or better He bravely won my heart, wrote me a letter With his hammer in his hand, he looked quite clever And if I was with my love, I'd live forever
Michael Wigglesworth was born October 18, 1631, in Yorkshire, England.His father was Edward Wigglesworth, born 1603 in Scotton, Lincolnshire, and his mother was Ester Middlebrook of Wrawby (born in Batley), who married on October 27, 1629, in Wrawby.
The poem was reprinted in a book published the same year by Hodder & Stoughton. The poem prefaced the book, and lines and stanzas from the poem and from the speech given by the King, were used as epigraphs for the chapters describing the King's journey, and to caption some of the photographs. [9]