Once, in a pleasant garden,
God placed a happy pair;
And all within was peaceful,
And all around was fair.
But, O! they disobeyed Him!
The one thing He denied
They longed for, took, and tasted;
They ate it, and—they died!
Yet, in His love and pity,
At once the Lord declared
How man, though lost and ruined,
Might after all be spared!
For One of Eve’s descendants,
Not sinful, like the rest,
Should spoil the work of Satan,
And man be saved and blest, —
Should be the Son of Adam,
But Son of God as well,
And bring a full salvation
From sin and death and hell.