The pilgrim that journeys all day (William Jackson of Exeter)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-06).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 272 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: The pilgrim that journeys all day
Composer: William Jackson of Exeter
Lyricist: William Shenstone
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicings: SS or TT
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: c.1770 (n/d)
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Original text and translations

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The pilgrim that journeys all day
To visit some far distant shrine,
If he bear but a relic away,
Is happy, nor heard to repine.
Thus widely remov'd from the fair,
Where my vows, my devotion, I owe,
Soft hope is the relic I bear,
And my solace wherever I go.