| 1 | The Son of God has come to sow |
| | Himself, the seed of life, in man, |
| | That thru Himself God’s Kingdom grow |
| | And thus fulfill th’ eternal plan. |
| 2 | He was the only grain of wheat |
| | Whence many grains have been produced |
| | To be the Kingdom’s children meet, |
| | Thru whom God’s reign is introduced. |
| 3 | But Satan, enemy of God, |
| | Sowed many tares among the wheat, |
| | The Kingdom’s children to confuse, |
| | And awful damage to create. |
| 4 | ’Tis by this subtle work of his, |
| | The mixing of the tares with wheat, |
| | The Kingdom in appearance is |
| | Abnormal and grotesquely great. |
| 5 | The Kingdom should as mustard be, |
| | A little herb, yet good for food, |
| | But it has changed into a “tree,” |
| | A system of great magnitude. |
| 6 | Instead of being good for food, |
| | A lodge of “birds” it has become: |
| | ’Tis now a place where evil men |
| | And evil spirits make their home. |
| 7 | A great religion of the world |
| | Its outward form to us reveals. |
| | Including pagan, evil things, |
| | As leaven mingled with the meal. |
| 8 | A system of the world as such, |
| | It thus has changed in outward form; |
| | By evil things which it imbibes, |
| | Corruption inwardly doth swarm. |
| 9 | But something hidden God doth seek, |
| | As “pearl” and “treasure in the field”; |
| | As such the Lord would us transform |
| | That pearl and treasure be revealed. |
| 10 | ’Tis hidden from vast Christendom |
| | And from the Kingdom’s great facade, |
| | Yet in its full reality |
| | ’Tis transformed like to Christ and God. |
| 11 | Lord, separate us from the “tares,” |
| | And save us from the monstrous “tree”; |
| | From all the “leaven” purge us now |
| | That we may purely be of Thee. |
| 12 | May Thou in life transform our souls |
| | That we as precious stones may be, |
| | Meet for Thy house to build and in |
| | Thy Kingdom’s full reality. |
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