Who Would True Valour See
Mr Valiant-for-Truth reflects on what is needed for a Christian on the way to his reward.
Mr Valiant-for-Truth reflects on what is needed for a Christian on the way to his reward.
In the second part of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Mr Valiant-for-Truth has been explaining why he has not turned aside on his pilgrimage as Mr Fearing and Mr Despondency had. He sums up with some lines of verse which have become one of the best-loved of all hymns in English.
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.
Who so 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 fear not what men say.
He’ll labour night and day
To be a Pilgrim.