HYMN 679
Tune: LM L.M (FE 704)
1. ERE Mother Eve falleth to sin
None hath the idea of the knit
Her nudeness never to expose
Abomination! and a snare!
2. When raiment of fig leaves she wore
The sacred adorning fadeth
Lo! as we thy Kindred on earth
The raiment of shame we adorn.
3. Lo! we mortal, how great our pride
When the raiment anew adorn
As though not adorneth of ants
As though not adorneth of sheep.
4. Lo! the beautiful butterfly
And the flow'ry plants and the shrubs
My raiments how much and in worths
Worthless than butterfly and shrubs.
5. With all of me, my heart I'll seek
Worthy adomments in value
Acceptable manners and truth
Greatest and worthy adomments.
6. Then shall I of great value be
Than the butterfly, ants and shrubs
Adornment of Angelic pearls
And of the sacred Son of God.
7. Never failing and fadeth not
Neither of the moth be consumed
In rain, in shine it’s all the same
It’s beauty, value, ne'er corrupt.
8. This I shall adorn here below
That I may adorn there above
Pearly adornment made of God
His glory and His joy it be. Amen
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