231    L.M.     Isaac Watts
“We walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Cor. 5. 7; 4. 17, 18

1 ’Tis by the faith of joys to come
  We walk through deserts dark as night;
  Till we arrive at heaven our home,
  Faith is our guide, and faith our light.

2 The want of sight she well supplies;
  She makes the pearly gates appear;
  Far into distant worlds she pries,
  And brings eternal glories near.

3 Cheerful we tread the desert through,
  While faith inspires a heavenly ray,
  Though lions roar, and tempests blow,
  And rocks and dangers fill the way.

4 So Abram, by divine command,
  Left his own house to walk with God;
  His faith beheld the promised land,
  And fired his zeal along the road.