1 It was a garden in the primal age,
But at the end it is a city square;
2 Both in the garden and the city fair
A river and the tree of life are seen,
3 Both in the garden and the city bright
Three kinds of precious substances are found;
4 But in the garden all these precious things
Are just materials lying in the earth,
5 Man in the garden of the clay was formed,
In nature as the Lord created him;
6 But in the city glorious the tree
Within the corporate "man" doth grow, thereby
7 'Tis for the city man is wrought upon,
Therefore regenerated and transformed
8 Within the garden also was a bride,
Who was to Adam as his counterpart;
9 The city is God's building work replete,
A composition of the justified;
10 'Tis God's expression, ultimate and full,
Corporate and universal, marvelous;