Dir möcht ich diese Lieder weihen, 
geliebtes [deutsches]1 Vaterland!
Denn dir, dem neuerstandnen, freien,
ist all mein Sinnen zugewandt.

Doch Heldenblut ist dir geflossen,
dir sank der Jugend schönste Zier.
Nach solchen Opfern, heilig grossen,
was gälten diese Lieder dir?

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Ludwig Uhland, Stuttgart: Fr. Henue, 1840, page 90.

¹ Kreutzer: "theures"

Text Authorship:

• by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "An das Vaterland", appears in Lieder [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• by Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886 - 1954), "Das Vaterland", 1896 [ voice and piano ], unpublished ; manuscripts are in the Zurich Central Library  [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Conradin Kreutzer (1780 - 1849), "An das Vaterland" [ four-part men's chorus, a cappella ], in Das Rütli: ein Liederbuch für Schweizersänger, Song no. 59, pages 182-185 [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Melanie Trumbull

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