[From the German of Wolfgang Muller.]
My heart’s on the Rhine–in the old Father-land;
Where my cradle was rocked by a dear mother’s hand,
My youth and my friends–they are there yet, I know,
And my love dreams of me with her cheeks all aglow;
O there where I reveled in song and in wine!
Wherever I wander my heart’s on the Rhine.
I hail thee, thou broad-breasted, golden-green stream;
Ye cities and churches and castles that gleam;
Ye grain-fields of gold in the valley so blue;
Ye vineyards that glow in the sun-shimmered dew;
Ye forests and caverns and cliffs that were mine!
Wherever I wander my heart’s on the Rhine.
I hail thee, O life of the soul-stirring song,
Of waltz and of wine, with a yearning so strong,
Hail, ye stout race of heroes, so brave and so true.
Ye blue-eyed, gay maidens, a greeting to you!
Your life and your aims and your efforts be mine;
Wherever I wander my heart’s on the Rhine.
My heart’s on the Rhine–in the old Father-land,
Where my cradle was rocked by a dear mother’s hand;
My youth and my friends–they are there yet, I know,
And my love dreams of me with her cheeks all aglow:
Be thou ever the same to me, Land of the Vine!
Wherever I wander my heart’s on the Rhine.
(Hanford Lennox Gordon)
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