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50 Uncommon Songs (2014)
This looks like a likely candidate for your source, unless it's also your work. It appears to attribute the text to McNaughton. And it gives the date as 1854.
Yes, that's my work.
Yes, that's my work.
Ah well, I thought it probably was
In any case, I think the longer version is the better version. I wouldn't be averse to singing the verse numbered 4. as verse 7 if it were so presented.