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Translated by J. Macray
WHICH is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Is ’t Prussia’s or Swabia’s land? | |
| Is ’t where the Rhine’s rich vintage streams? | |
| Or where the Northern sea-gull screams?— | |
| Ah, no, no, no! | 5 |
| His fatherland ’s not bounded so! | |
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| Which is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Bavaria’s or Styria’s land? | |
| Is ’t where the Marsian ox unbends? | |
| Or where the Marksman iron rends?— | 10 |
| Ah, no, no, no! | |
| His fatherland ’s not bounded so! | |
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| Which is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Pomerania’s, or Westphalia’s land? | |
| Is it where sweep the Dunian waves? | 15 |
| Or where the thundering Danube raves?— | |
| Ah, no, no, no! | |
| His fatherland ’s not bounded so! | |
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| Which is the German’s fatherland? | |
| O, tell me now the famous land! | 20 |
| Is ’t Tyrol, or the land of Tell? | |
| Such lands and people please me well.— | |
| Ah, no, no, no! | |
| His fatherland ’s not bounded so! | |
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| Which is the German’s fatherland? | 25 |
| Come, tell me now the famous land. | |
| Doubtless, it is the Austrian state, | |
| In honors and in triumphs great.— | |
| Ah, no, no, no! | |
| His fatherland ’s not bounded so! | 30 |
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| Which is the German’s fatherland? | |
| So tell me now the famous land! | |
| Is ’t what the Princess won by sleight | |
| From the Emperor’s and Empire’s right?— | |
| Ah, no, no, no! | 35 |
| His fatherland ’s not bounded so! | |
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| Which is the German’s fatherland? | |
| So tell me now at last the land!— | |
| As far ’s the German accent rings | |
| And hymns to God in heaven sings,— | 40 |
| That is the land,— | |
| There, brother, is thy fatherland! | |
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| There is the German’s fatherland, | |
| Where oaths attest the graspéd hand,— | |
| Where truth beams from the sparkling eyes, | 45 |
| And in the heart love warmly lies;— | |
| That is the land,— | |
| There, brother, is thy fatherland! | |
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| That is the German’s fatherland, | |
| Where wrath pursues the foreign band,— | 50 |
| Where every Frank is held a foe, | |
| And Germans all as brothers glow;— | |
| That is the land,— | |
| All Germany ’s thy fatherland! | |
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