Long may you live,

And year by year blessings on blessings receive;

May prosperity’s genius most graciously smile,

And in crowning your efforts diminish your toil.

In the grand distribution of th’ good things of earth,

May you get your proportion, to cheer your home-hearth;

Ever here claim the gifts of the angel of health,

And secure for hereafter Eternity’s wealth.

May such choice Birthday socials, like Hermon’s bright dew,

With frequency shed their refreshings on you;

And that Comforter, beacon of heavenly light,

Be your constant companion, by day and night.

As the mighty designs of Jehovah roll on,

May you hold sweet communion with those who have gone;

And the vail, now between us, grow thin to your view,

And Eternity’s visions be opened to you.

Though you’ve sought to do much, may you do even more

In the great work of God than you’ve done heretofore—

Doing good here and there, and wherever you go.

Please accept this—a Wish from