"A Happy New Year" (1909)
(A Short Song-Study)
by Frederic Woodman Root, 1846-1916

[Source: page 53 of "Guide for the Male Voice"]

  A happy New Year
  and a host of good cheer
To lov'd ones at home and afar;
  May the bright sunshine fall
  on the hearts of them all,
Where-ever as dwellers they are.