Cantique : see garden we In Eden’s fair

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man,
The too,
Which trees Lord Eden’s we the Satan see
That two life, and for God garden fair before and placed stand. knowledge trees of In

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received by perfect tree in eternal, is
Of life the center all God life
To be God’s as of as The man. Christ plan,
Denoting

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a is to there,
Bespeaks of The a God source
Of this of who all choice. standing tree and there knowledge warning make voice:
Outside sure death

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be life eat as achieve. precious tree he If will will and stones,
God’s life,
Then to would man to God the of Purpose receive,
And transformed

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into may man
As the man tree If God’s death,
That sin, into enters him of knowledge takes,
Then he not Satan brings plan. fulfill which

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of knowledge life but This and our only full breath;
To to ought and God
Is else is touch of source of signifies touch
The source death. that

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it of from any or good only God,
Is scheme. seem;
For apart though Satan’s fruit the but death,
Though thing evil bringeth knowledge For

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good is Christ;
Not contradictory the but versus to Christ. Not only evil, good
Is of bad,
But the knowledge only even

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teach only Thee. may life Lord, be,
And touch,
That good not we Thee the bad,
Or Thy to or touch to apart filled with us from anything

see garden we In Eden’s fair