Words: , Hymns of Love and Praise for the Church’s Year, 1863. This hymn was sung in the Acad­e­my Award win­ning mo­vie, Char­i­ots of Fire (1981).

Music: Pen­te­cost, , 1864; first pub­lished in Thir­ty-two Hymn Tunes Com­posed by Mem­bers of the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ox­ford, 1868:

asked me to com­pose a tune to Come Ho­ly Ghost, Our Souls In­spire, to be sung at a large meet­ing of York­shire col­liers. I walked, talked, slept and ate with the words, and at last evolved the tune which I na­tur­al­ly named Pent­e­cost…One day, as I was walk­ing along Re­gent Street I felt a slap on my back, and turn­ing around saw my dear old friend . “My dear Billy,” he said, “I’ve seen a tune of yours which I must have.” (He was then edit­ing Church Hymns) “All right,” I said, “Send me a cheque and I agree.” No co­py of the book, much less a proof was sent to me, and when I saw the tune I was hor­ri­fied to find that Sul­li­van had as­signed it to “Fight the good fight!” We had a reg­u­lar fist­i­cuffs about it, but judg­ing from the fa­vour with which the tune has been rec­eived, I feel that Sul­li­van was right in so mat­ing words and mu­sic.

Musical Times (XLIX, 1908)

Al­ter­nate tunes:

• Duke Street, at­trib­ut­ed to , 1793
• Shepton-Beauchamp, Eng­lish tra­di­tion­al mel­o­dy