When gathering clouds around I view. Sir R. Grant. [In Trial and Temptation.] Appeared first in the Christian Observer, Feb. 1806, in 6 stanzas of 6 lines, and signed "E.Y.D.R"; and again in the same magazine in Feb. 1812, accompanied with a letter explaining that it had been sent in an altered form, and signed as before. In 1835, Elliott included it in his Psalms and Hymns, No. 342, with a note in the Preface to the effect that it bad been revised by the Author for that Collection. It was also given in the Author's Sacred Poems (published by his brother) in 1839, p. 3, the text being that of 1812. Three texts of this hymn thus exist, and all by the author: (1) the first in the Christian Observer, 1806; (2) the second in the same, 1812, and in the Sacred Poems, 1839; (3) and the third in Elliott's Psalms and Hymns, 1835. Of these the second text is that usually received as authorized, and is given as such in Lyra Britannica, 1867, and in Lord Selborne's Book of Praise, 1862. The hymn is based on Heb. iv. 15, "For we have not a High Priest," &c, and is often given in an abbreviated form. In R. Bingham's Hymnologia Christiana Latina, 1871, 4 stanzas are rendered into Latin as: "Quum circumcirca glomerantia nubila cornam."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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