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THE
PILGRIM'S
LOT.
8,
8,
6.
Col.
1-14.
JOHN
WESLEY,
1746.
Key
of
G
Major.
Mercer's
Cluster,
page
224.
A.
GRAMBLIN.
How
hap
- py
is
the
pilgrim's
lot,
How
free
from
anxious
care
and
tho't,
How
free
from
anxious
care
and
tho't,
From
worldly
hope
and
fear:
Con
-
fined
to
neither
court
nor
cell,
His
soul
disdains
on
earth
to
dwell,
His
soul
dis-dains
on
earth
to
dwell,
He
on
-
ly
so-journs
here.
This
tune
is
supposed
to
have
been
composed
by
A.
Gramblin.
We
can
find
nothing
more
of
him
other
than
the
fact
that
he
was
a
member
of
the
Southern
Musical
Convention
for
several
years
before
the
war.
No
trace
of
him
since
the
civil
war.
The
words
of
this
tune
are
taken
from
a
hymn
book
called
"Mercer's
Cluster,"
revised
1823
and
again
by
same
author
in
1832,
by
Jesse
Mercer,
who
lived
at
Powellton,
Ga.,
and
for
a
while
in
Washington
County.
Words
were
written
by
John
Wesley,
the
founder
of
Methodism.
His
history
is
so
well
known
that
it
is
unnecessary
to
state
it
here.
He
composed
a
large
number
of
hymns
and
changed
some
of
the
hymns
of
his
brother,
Charles
Wesley.