O most delightful hour by man. W. Cowper. [Death and Burial.] These are the "Stanzas Subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the Parish of All Saints, in the Town of Northampton, Anno Domini 1789," and subsequently published with Cowper's translations from the French of Madame Guion, as Poems Translated from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion, &c, Newport-Pagnel, 1801, p. 122. There are 9 stanzas of 4 lines in all. Of these stanzas i.-iv. with alterations, were given in Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1840 and 1873, and also in a few American collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)