Great health and a bountiful living
Is my wish to you. Be merry!
So long as you live and your chest is heaving,
Greet all Life's blessings that once long did tarry.

Any foe that Chance has laid upon you
May Faith be keen and soon defy
And by friends supplanted be its evil, who
Shall never render you a teary eye.

When Yesterday has led your song astray,
Hold on! Raise your head in tender greeting
Sing as blithely the next day,
Knowing your heart is still alive and beating.

Whatever be your longing quest,
I wish you find and at reachable heights -
Perpetual Happiness that makes your chest
A hearth and home where it resides.