God, my heart isfixedy

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Sun, 10/28/2012 - 01:01 — Haruo

For reasons unreasonable and unknowable, the text authority page for "O Happy Day" indicated that the title of the hymn was "God, my heart isfixedy". I changed it to "God, my heart is fixed" so it wouldn't look ridiculous, but I don't see any evidence that this is actually "the title" of the hymn. I don't have its first publication handy, and I think maybe "My heart is fixed on Thee, O God" is more likely (there is one instance that has that for a first line, and "O happy day" as a refrain, but it's from 1945 so hardly likely to preserve Doddridge's first intent).


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Thu, 11/01/2012 - 09:37 — cfenner

The original title reads, "Rejoicing in our Covenant-Engagements to God. 2 Chron. xv. 15," Hymns Founded on Various Texts (1755).

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 17:30 — Haruo

I added that to the Text Info on the text authority page, but had to use _..._ instead of italics because the Notes field is, annoyingly at times, one of those "plain text" fields where you can't do proper formatting. (Full text is the other such field that often annoys me.)

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