7 Dear Lord, if I am one of thine,
From anxious thoughts I would be free ;
To trust and love and praise is mine,
The care of all belongs to thee.
95.
The Garden.
1 A GARDEN contemplation suits,
And may instruction yield
Sweeter than all the flow rs and fruits
With which the spot is fill'd.
2 Eden was Adam s dwelling-place
While blest with innocence ;
But sin o er whelm d him with disgrace?.
And drove the rebel thence.
3 Oft as the garden-walk we tread
We should bemoan his fall ;
The trespass of our legal head
In ruin plunged us all.
4 The garden of Gethsemane
The second Adam saw
Oppress d with woe, to set us free
From the avenging law.
5 How stupid we, who can forget,
With gardens in our sight,
His agonies and bloody sweat
In that tremendous night !
6 His church as a fair garden stands,
Which walls of love enclose ;
Each tree is planted by his hands,
And by his blessing grows.
7 Believing hearts are gardens too,
For grace has sown its seeds
Where once, by nature, nothing grew
But thorns and worthless weeds.
8 Such themes to those who Jesus love
May constant joys afford,
