The Pilgrim
Who would true valor 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.
Nor enemy, nor 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 labor, night and day,
To be a Pilgrim.
John Bunyan.