WHAT is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Is it Prussia, or the Swabian’s land? | |
| Is it where the grape glows on the Rhine? | |
| Where sea-gulls skim the Baltic’s brine? | |
| Oh no! more grand | 5 |
| Must be the German’s fatherland! | |
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| What is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Bavaria, or the Styrian’s land? | |
| Is it where the Master’s cattle graze? | |
| Is it the Mark where forges blaze? | 10 |
| Oh no! more grand | |
| Must be the German’s fatherland! | |
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| What is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Westphalia? Pomerania’s strand? | |
| Where the sand drifts along the shore? | 15 |
| Or where the Danube’s surges roar? | |
| Oh no! more grand | |
| Must be the German’s fatherland! | |
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| What is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Now name for me that mighty land! | 20 |
| Is it Switzerland? or Tyrols, tell;— | |
| The land and people pleased me well! | |
| Oh no! more grand | |
| Must be the German’s fatherland! | |
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| What is the German’s fatherland? | 25 |
| Now name for me that mighty land! | |
| Ah! Austria surely it must be, | |
| So rich in fame and victory. | |
| Oh no! more grand | |
| Must be the German’s fatherland! | 30 |
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| What is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Tell me the name of that great land! | |
| Is it the land which princely hate | |
| Tore from the Emperor and the State? | |
| Oh no! more grand | 35 |
| Must be the German’s fatherland! | |
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| What is the German’s fatherland? | |
| Now name at last that mighty land! | |
| “Where’er resounds the German tongue, | |
| Where’er its hymns to God are sung!” | 40 |
| That is the land, | |
| Brave German, that thy fatherland! | |
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| That is the German’s fatherland! | |
| Where binds like oak the claspèd hand, | |
| Where truth shines clearly from the eyes, | 45 |
| And in the heart affection lies. | |
| Be this the land, | |
| Brave German, this thy fatherland! | |
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| That is the German’s fatherland! | |
| Where scorn shall foreign trifles brand, | 50 |
| Where all are foes whose deeds offend, | |
| Where every noble soul ’s a friend: | |
| Be this the land, | |
| All Germany shall be the land! | |
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| All Germany that land shall be: | 55 |
| Watch o’er it, God, and grant that we, | |
| With German hearts, in deed and thought, | |
| May love it truly as we ought. | |
| Be this the land, | |
| All Germany shall be the land! | 60 |
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