<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421605" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Garden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Garden contemplation suits,<br>And may instruction yield,<br>Sweeter than all the flow'rs and fruits<br>With which the spot is filled. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eden was Adam's dwelling place,<br>While blest with innocence;<br>But sin o'erwhelmed him with disgrace,<br>And drove the rebel thence. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft as the garden-walk we tread,<br>We should bemoan his fall;<br>The trespass of our legal head<br>In ruin plunged us all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The garden of Gethsemane,<br>The second Adam saw,<br>Oppressed with woe, to set us free<br>From the avenging law. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How stupid we, who can forget,<br>With gardens in our sight,<br>His agonies and bloody sweat,<br>In that tremendous night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His church as a fair garden stands,<br>Which walls of love enclose;<br>Each tree is planted by his hand,<br>And by his blessing grows. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Believing hearts are gardens too,<br>For grace has sown its seeds;<br>Where once, by nature, nothing grew<br>But thorns and worthless weeds. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such themes to those who Jesus love,<br>May constant joys afford;<br>And make a barren desert prove<br>The garden of the Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421605" data-title="The Garden de John Newton" data-description="A Garden contemplation suits, And may instruction yield, Sweeter than all the flow'rs and fruits With which the spot is filled. Eden was Adam's dwelling place, While blest with innocence; But sin o'erwhelmed him with disgrace, And drove the rebe..."></div> </div> </div>

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