| Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916. | | | | Mine Own Land | | By Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen (1874–1945) |
| | | THERE gleams a plough in Thuringian land, | |
| Steered by a firm and happy hand, | |
| Through mine, oh mine own ground! | |
| And mine is the plough and the horses are mine, | |
| And the silvery birch and the coal-black pine, | 5 |
| The herd by the forest edge found! | |
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| Is there in the world a happier lot | |
| Than this one that I from my ancestors got? | |
| At dawn I ride on my round. | |
| The gains of the mart are cast off by my hand: | 10 |
| There gleams a plough in Thuringian land, | |
| That goes through mine own ground! | | | | |
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