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Willkommen theure Brüder! Seyd dankbar uns gegrüßt, Die ihr als Gäste bieder, Mit uns das Mahl genießt; Als Sänger froher Lieder, Wodurch ihr Tugend pries't; Als einer Kette Glieder, Die rings die Welt umschließt. Vom großen Bruderbunde, Seht hier ein schönes Bild, Wo jedes Herz mit Grunde, Vertrau'n und Freundschaft füllt! Hier wird in froher Stunde, Selbst Gram und Kummer mild, Weil Trost im Brudermunde, Des Bruders Klagen stillt. Vom Rebensaft erheitert, Reicht, Brüder! uns die Hand! Der Freude Reiz erweitert, Des Ordens Bruderband: Die Menschenliebe läutert, Empfindung und Verstand, Und keine Hoffnung scheitert Dann ohne Unterpfand. Uns sey zur Lebensreise, Die Tugend zugesellt; Sie, die dereinst die Preise Am Ziel der Laufbahn hält! Dies höchste Gut für Weise, Von Selbstsucht nie entstellt, Dies Glück in unserm Kreise, Macht dann das Glück der Welt.
Text Authorship:
- by Karl Alexander Herklots (1759 - 1830), "Zu Ehren besuchender Brüder", appears in Freymaurer Lieder mit Melodien, first published 1795 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Zu Ehren besuchender Brüder", published 1795, rediscovered in 1991 by Dr. Heinz Rosenthal [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "To honour visiting brothers", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2011-02-06
Line count: 32
Word count: 134
Our brothers dear be welcome and greeted with a tune. At table being joysome tonight will prove a boon. We meet as brothers singing at our masonic board. Freemasons' echoes ringing: 'Our hearts are in accord.' Our fellowship is woven with strong and loyal thread, Our virtues, ever proven, world wide let them be spread. The outstretched hands - a token of trust and brotherhood: No sorrow stay unspoken, each test of time withstood. So let us raise the glasses to welcome mirth and wine, ere our ev'ning passes and ends in 'Auld Lang Syne'. Masonic spirit streaming makes thoughts and hearts sublime -- our life is more than dreaming about a better time. Virtue should be attending the journey of our life and worldly life transcending, to gild the end of strife. This greatest good for sages of self-interest deprived will grant the noblest stages to reach in our life.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2011 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Alexander Herklots (1759 - 1830), "Zu Ehren besuchender Brüder", appears in Freymaurer Lieder mit Melodien, first published 1795
This text was added to the website: 2011-02-06
Line count: 32
Word count: 149
