| 1 | In Eden’s garden fair we see |
| | That God before two trees placed man, |
| | The trees of life, and knowledge too, |
| | Which for the Lord and Satan stand. |
| 2 | The tree of life the center is |
| | Of God’s eternal, perfect plan, |
| | Denoting God in Christ as life |
| | To be received as all by man. |
| 3 | The tree of knowledge standing there, |
| | Bespeaks a sure and warning voice: |
| | Outside of God there is a source |
| | Of death to all who make this choice. |
| 4 | If man would eat the tree of life, |
| | Then God as life he will receive, |
| | And be transformed to precious stones, |
| | God’s will and Purpose to achieve. |
| 5 | If man the tree of knowledge takes, |
| | Then Satan enters into man |
| | As sin, which brings him into death, |
| | That he may not fulfill God’s plan. |
| 6 | This signifies that only God |
| | Is our full source of life and breath; |
| | To touch ought else is but to touch |
| | The source of knowledge and of death. |
| 7 | For knowledge only bringeth death, |
| | Though evil or though good it seem; |
| | For any thing apart from God, |
| | Is but the fruit of Satan’s scheme. |
| 8 | Not only evil, but the good |
| | Is contradictory to Christ; |
| | Not only knowledge of the bad, |
| | But even good is versus Christ. |
| 9 | Lord, teach us only Thee to touch, |
| | That with Thy life we filled may be, |
| | And not to touch the good or bad, |
| | Or anything apart from Thee. |
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