Hymn: "Oh, none in all the world before"

by John Greenleaf Whittier

Versions of Hymn include:

• "Hymn" in In War Time, and Other Poems (1863)
• quoted in The Freedmen at Port Royal from Atlantic Monthly in September, 1863, Pages 291-315
• "Hymn sung at St Helena’s Island" in The Riverside song book (1893)
• “Hymn sung at Christmas by the Scholars of St. Helena’s Island, S. C.,” in The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (1895)