One of the hymns in church a couple months ago was "Forgive Us, Lord, for Shallow Thankfulness." The third line of the third verse is "Forgive our thanks for walking pleasant ways," sung to this phrase from the tune "Sursum corda":
Roughly the second half of this phrase is diatonic, moving up and down the steps of the scale. Musically, then, it illustrates the "walking" in the text.
