That led me to the garden of the King.

Thou gavest me a light my path to guide,

To prove my heart's recesses still untried;

And as I went, thy voice in warning cried:

"Child! fear thou him who is thy God and King!"

True weight and measure learned my heart from thee;

If blessings follow, then what joy for me!

If nought but sin, all mine the shame must be,

For that was not determined by the King.

I hasten, trembling, to confess the whole