A lover’s ready gift’s his life for his love’s good.
Dispense thou food for God’s sake; food thou’lt surely have.
Lay down thy life for love of God; thy life thou’lt save.
We see the trees here shed their leaves at God’s command.
Without their toil or trouble, other leaves He’ll send.345
Shouldst thou, dispensing much, one day be found in want,
The Lord will not forsake thee; His supply’s not scant.
Whoever sows, must empty storehouses of grain;
His fields will yield him richly tenfold heaps of gain.
But he who’s left his corn in garners, to be used,