My Heart Is Fixed

Over in that bright and sunny clime above

Author: John Taylor
Tune: [Over in that bright and sunny clime above]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: John Taylor

Taylor, John, born July 30, 1750, was the son of Richard Taylor, of Norwich, and grandson of Dr. John Taylor (1694-1761, the eminent Hebrew scholar, who was for many years minister of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, and afterwards Divinity tutor at the Warrington Academy. Dr. Taylor published A Collection of Tunes in Various Airs, one of the first collections of its kind, and his grandson was one of the most musical of Unitarian hymn-writers). Young Taylor, after serving his apprenticeship in his native place, was for two years in a banking house in London, at which time he was an occasional poetical contributor to the Morning Chronicle. In 1773 he returned to Norwich, where he spent the rest of his life, first as a manufacturer, and afterward… Go to person page >

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First Line: Over in that bright and sunny clime above
Title: My Heart Is Fixed
Author: John Taylor
Language: English
Refrain First Line: My heart is fixed on things above
Publication Date: 1946
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1946.

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