975--It was a garden in the primal age,

It was a garden in the primal age,

975

	1.	It was a garden in the primal age,
		But at the end it is a city square;
		Creation's center in the garden was,
		God's building issues in the city fair.
	2.	Both in the garden and the city fair
		A river and the tree of life are seen,
		Christ typifying as the life supply,
		The Spirit showing as the living
		stream.
	3.	Both in the garden and the city bright
		Three kinds of precious substances are
		found;
		There are the gold, the pearls, and
		precious stones
		Which for the building work of God
		abound.
	4.	But in the garden all these precious
		things
		Are just materials lying in the earth,
		Yet in the city all are builded up
		And form that dwelling of transcendent
		worth.
	5.	Man in the garden of the clay was
		formed,
		In nature as the Lord created him'
		The tree of life was then without the
		man,
		Not having yet become his life within.
	6.	But in the city glorious the tree
		Within the corporate "man" doth grow,
		thereby
		Revealing Christ Himself as life divine
		Being to man his inward life supply.