1 What Adam's disobedience cost,
let Holy Scripture say:
ourselves estranged, an Eden lost,
and then a judgment day:
each day a judgment day.
2 An ark of mercy rode the flood,
but we, where waters swirled,
rebuilt, impatient of the good,
another fallen world:
an unrepentant world.
3 A little child is Adam's heir,
is Adam's hope and Lord,
Sing joyful carols everywhere,
that Eden is restored:
in Jesus is restored.
4 Regained is Adam's blessedness:
the angels sheathe their swords;
in joyful carols all confess
the kingdom is the Lord's:
the glory is the Lord's!
5 Renewed, restored we look ahead
to glimpse that glorious day
when in the new Jerusalem
all griefs will pass away.
""Amen. Hallelujah!""
