The long lost garden

Remembering the beauty of a long lost garden,
Set between rivers and surrounded by waters;
Breezes to soften and sun's heat to harden
The land which He recovered and bought us.

Paradise lost and now rediscovered,
A garden where fruit trees were once forbidden;
An edict broken, a covenant severed,
But now a Lord to walk with, no longer hidden.

Clouds black the sky, the temple veil's broken;
Skull hill bears crosses where the dead will die.
Here is beginning's end which so long was spoken -
Now all creation waits patient for reply.

A stone is moved; the garden blooms once more.
The sun is risen, the glorious day has dawned.
Lost paradise regained now, Heaven is ours again.
Man's salvation paid for and we are re-born.