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Bin durch die Alpen gezogen, Wo die Lawine rollt, Sah, wie in Meereswogen Tauchte der Sonne Gold. Aber freudig ich tauschte Alpen und Meeresstrand Für das Tannen-durchrauschte Nordische Heimatland. Schlösser sah ich und Thürme, Schimmernd und marmorweiss; Dunkeler Pinien Schirme Wiegten im Wind sich leis, Aber schöner und besser -- Lacht mich immerhin aus -- Als die Marmorschlösser Dünkt mich mein Vaterhaus. Mägdlein durfte ich kosen, Schlank und liliengleich, Frauen wie volle Rosen, Üppig und anmuthreich; Lilie aber und Rose Werden von der besiegt, Die mich als Knaben im Schose In den Schlaf gewiegt.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Rudolf Baumbach, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Leipzig: Verlag von A. G. Liebeskind, 1882, pages 84-85.
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I travelled through the Alps Where the avalanches roll; I saw how the gold of the sun Descended into the ocean waves. But gladly would I exchange The Alps and ocean shore For the land suffused with soughing of pines, My Nordic homeland. I saw castles and turrets, Shimmering and marble-white; Dark pine canopies Swayed quietly in the wind, But more beautiful and better -- Laugh at me if you please -- Than the marble castles Is my parental home. I exchanged caresses with maidens Slender and lily-like, With women like full-blown roses, Voluptuous and full of charms; But the lily and the rose Are trumped by her Who, when I was lad, Rocked me to sleep in her lap.
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"Bin durch die Alpen gezogen" = "I travelled through the Alps"
"Heim" = "Home"
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This text was added to the website: 2020-09-20
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