First Version: Messenger and Advocate

BY W. W. PHELPS.

1.   This world was once a garden place,
      With all her glories common;
   And men did live a holy race,
   And worship Jesus face to face,
      In Adam-ondi-Ahman.
   
   

2.   We read that Enoch walk'd with God,
      Above the pow'r of Mammon:
   While Zion spread herself obroad, [sic.]
   And saints and angels sung aloud
      In Adam-ondi-Ahman.
   
   

3.   Her land was good and greatly blest,
      Beyond old Israel's Canaan;
   Her fame was known from east to west;
   Her peace was great, and pure the rest—
      Of Adam-ondi-Ahman.
   
   

4.   Hosanna to such days to come—
      The Savior's second comin'—
   When all the world in glorious bloom,
   Affords the saints a holy home
      Like Adam-ondi-Ahman.

Second Version: Collection of Sacred Hymns

1.   This earth was once a garden place,
      With all her glories common;
   And men did live a holy race,
   And worship Jesus face to face,
      In Adam-ondi-Ahman.
   
   

2.   We read that Enoch walk'd with God,
      Above the pow'r of Mammon:
   While Zion spread herself abroad,
   And saints and angels sung aloud
      In Adam-ondi-Ahman.
   
   

3.   Her land was good and greatly blest,
      Beyond old Israel's Canaan:
   Her fame was known from east to west;
   Her peace was great, and pure the rest
      Of Adam-ondi-Ahman.
   
   

4.   Hosanna to such days to come—
      The Savior's second comin'—
   When all the earth in glorious bloom,
   Affords the saints a holy home
      Like Adam-ondi-Ahman.