Carolyn, I kinda glanced around at a few lyrics on the web before I consulted the SOURCE. On the web, you find all kinds of mondegreens. Lyricsmode was as far out as this: Never more with anguish laidin' we shall reach that lovely aimin'. That was so ridiculous, I went to the living room and fetched the REAL REDBACK, copyright 1951, by Tennessee Music and Printing Company.It has ai-den, separated like that where you sing two different notes. I thought from the context it must mean Eden, haven, or heaven, but I really don't know why it is spelled aiden in my hymnal.I guess they had to make it rhyme, lol.