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Hymn 2:129 ['Tis By The Faith Of Joys To Come]

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Title:     Hymn 2:129 ['Tis By The Faith Of Joys To Come]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

We walk by faith, not by sight.


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

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

Cheerful we tread the desert thro',
While faith inspires a heavenly ray,
Tho' lions roar, and tempests blow,
And rocks and dangers fill the way.

So Abrah'm, by divine command,
Left his own house to walk with God;
His faith beheld the promis'd land,
And fir'd his zeal along the road.


[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 2:129 ['tis By The Faith Of Joys To Come]

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