Hyphenated lyrics for the 2025 edition

[Will Fitzgerald]

I am pleased to announce that we have added the hyphenated lyrics to the songs in the 2025 edition of The Sacred Harp to the GitHub repository of texts. These can be found at https://github.com/Sacred-Harp-Publishing-Company/2025-edition under the hyphenated-lyrics folder. The lyrics look like this, with a standard hyphen for non-discretionary hyphens, and a middle dot for discretionary hyphens.

My spir·it looks to God a·lone,
My rock and ref·uge is His throne;
In all my fears, in all my straits,
My soul on His sal·va·tion waits.
Trust Him, ye saints, in all your ways,
Pour out your hearts be·fore His face;
When help·ers fail and foes in·vade,
God is our all-suf·fi·cient aid.

Note that use of the discretionary hyphens were left to the music typographers, and of course not every one is actually used in the book. More details can be found in the document called HYPHENATION.md in the GitHub repository.

Will