Happy birthday to the one I love! All my joy goes out to you today! Perhaps I learned, the months you were away, Part of me moves always as you move. You're the yearning distance can't remove, Bringing life to reveries cold and gray; In thoughts of you my dreams and passions play, Rejoicing in a hope that time will prove. Today I celebrate your day of birth, Happy in the hour that brought you here, Drawn by all the music of your worth, A time for gratitude that you are near. You are the one on Earth I hold most dear.
