Adam-ondi-Ahman (hymn)

"Adam-ondi-Ahman" (originally "This Earth Was Once a Garden Place") is an LDS hymn and was included in the first Latter Day Saint hymnal and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the early church.

[1] The Latter Day Saint term, Adam-ondi-Ahman, refers to the place that Adam and Eve went after they were evicted from the Garden of Eden.

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

In Latter Day Saint theology, Enoch founded the city of Zion on earth, which God eventually took up into heaven because of the righteousness of its inhabitants.

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