And wilt Thou now forsake me, Lord? [Confidence.] An anonymous hymn which appeared in vol. ii. (called Pts. iii. & iv.) of a Selection by the Countess of Northesk, entitled The Sheltering Vine, 3rd thousand, 1853. A slightly different version is in the American Sabbath Hymn Book, N.Y., 1858, No. 761, and other American collections.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)