1  In Eden's garden fair we see

    That God before two trees placed man,

    The trees of life, and knowledge too,

    Which for the Lord and Satan stand.

 2  The tree of life the center is

    Of God's eternal, perfect plan,

    Denoting God in Christ as life

    To be received as all by man.

 3  The tree of knowledge standing there,

    Bespeaks a sure and warning voice:

    Outside of God there is a source

    Of death to all who make this choice.

 4  If man would eat the tree of life,

    Then God as life he will receive,

    And be transformed to precious stones,

    God's will and purpose to achieve.

 5  If man the tree of knowledge takes,

    Then Satan enters into man

    As sin, which brings him into death,

    That he may not fulfill God's plan.

 6  This signifies that only God

    Is our full source of life and breath;

    To touch ought else is but to touch

    The source of knowledge and of death.

 7  For knowledge only bringeth death,

    Though evil or though good it seem;

    For any thing apart from God,

    Is but the fruit of Satan's scheme.

 8  Not only evil, but the good

    Is contradictory to Christ;

    Not only knowledge of the bad,

    But even good is versus Christ.

 9  Lord, teach us only Thee to touch,

    That with Thy life we filled may be,

    And not to touch the good or bad,

    Or anything apart from Thee.