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272 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.

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,