The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

These trumpeters greeted Christian and Hopeful with ten thousand
welcomes! This done, they surrounded the Pilgrims — so as to guard
them through the upper regions,
continually singing with melodious
voices as they went — as if Heaven
itself had come down to meet them!
Thus, therefore, they walked on
together. As they walked, these
trumpeters, with joyful sound,
would always by mixing their music
with pleasant looks and gestures —
signify to Christian and Hopeful,
how welcome they were in their
company, and with what gladness
they came to receive them.
Now Christian and Hopeful were as
if in Heaven, before they came there
— being swallowed up with the
sight of angels, and with the hearing
of their melodious voices. Here also they had the City itself fully in
view, and they thought that they heard all the City bells ringing to
welcome them in. But above all, they were encouraged by the warm and
joyful thoughts of their own dwelling there, with such company — and
that forever and ever! O what tongue or pen could express their
glorious joy! And thus they came up to the gate.
Now, there was written over the gate, in letters of gold, "Blessed are
those who obey His commandments — that they may have the right to
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