In the Garden...with Elvis Presley & My Grandmother

I think of my maternal grandmother often when I work in my garden, especially in the early morning light. This was one of her favorite hymns. There is no better rendition than that done by Elvis Presley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NH_is7VuCI

I come to the garden alone

While the dew is still on the roses

And the voice I hear falling on my ear

The Son of God discloses.

Refrain

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own;

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice,

Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,

And the melody that He gave to me

Within my heart is ringing.

Refrain

I’d stay in the garden with Him

Though the night around me be falling,

But He bids me go; through the voice of woe

His voice to me is calling.

Refrain

Words: Charles Austin Miles (1912)

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