Luke 17:5: Increase our faith

Faith enables us to bear
The sharpest injuries:
Faith alone gives birth to prayer.
And prayer doth faith increase:
Faith will every moment droop
Unless we every moment cry.
Guard it Iord, confirm, fill up,
And take us to the sky.

Thus throughout our course below
For more and more we pray,
Fresh degrees of faith bestow.
Nor let the grace decay;
Strengthen us to persevere.
And walk unblamed with Thee in white,
Till our faith is perfect here.
And swallow'd up in sight.