He was there alone, when even. Sir J. Bowring. [Retirement and Devotion.] Appeared in his Hymns, 1825, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. In 1848 it was given in Longfellow and Johnson's Book of Hymns, Boston, in 3 stanzas. In this form it has been repeated in a few modern Unitarian collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)