---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1845 to 1846.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 6
number: 7
published: 1845-04-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“O Adam,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 7 (April 15, 1845): 879."
printed_title: "O ADAM:"
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-04-15_6_7
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n07.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-04-15_6_7
start_page: 879
end_page: 879
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1845 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-04-15_6_7
  publication_year: 1845
---

# O Adam

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BY W. W. PHELPS.

Evs.[Eve]-O Adam, will you come with me? For paradise is blooming now;

For God has said that we are free Through endless realms the angels fly,

To all of Eden's joys and powers, To bring forth joys for you and I,

To pluck and eat her fruits and flowers, O have you hid yourself from me,

So we may cull the garden through For tasting that forbidden tree.

For flowers for me and fruit for you.

Adam-O yes, the tree of knowledge there,

Adam-All save the tree of knowledge there, And O! my fairest of the fair.

You may, my fairest of the fair.

Eve-O Adam, Adam,-must we go

Eve-O Adam, now 'tis you and I; Where "thorns and thistles" ever grow-

For Satan said we should not die; Where joys celestial never come,

God never made a woman mute, Where sorrow will despoil our home-

And I have eat forbidden fruit- Or can we live and be forgiven,

So now come eat with Eve your bride, And gain our place once more in heaven?

And feast your passions and your pride.

Adam-Yes, for the tree of life is there,

Adam-Yes, on the tree of knowledge there, So come, my fairest of the fair.

I will, my fairest of the fair.

Chorus-And multiply with joy and mirth,

God-O Adam, Adam,-where are thou? And beautify our mother earth .

The Times and Seasons, is Printed and Published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERMS-TWO DOLLARS per annum, payable in all cases in advance. Any person procuring five new subscribers, and forwarding us Ten Dollars current money, shall receive one volume gratis. All letters must be addressed to John Taylor, editor, POST PAID, or they will not receive attention.