Something is stirring in the Kyffhäuser.
It is the true one.
A singular little breeze is playing about
In the beard of the old man.
He strokes it with his hands,
Recollects himself and awakens.
"It seems to me that I slept
A very long night."

The morning is only just dawning
As the old one comes forth.
"Oh see! My nation has assembled
Itself before my door!
The Franconians, the Swabians, the Saxons -
Why do I enumerate them all?
They are all my Germans!
And am I really not missing one of them anymore?

Before all others, greetings to you, oh Baden!
Are you in the lead again?
Remain always for the German Reich
Its intrepid pivot!
And see! the publican at the mountain Württemberg
Has also looked out briskly
And would rather trust his people,
Than the kind and blind.

Greetings to you, people of Nassau and Hessians!
It is apparent: the fiery wine
Is not cooked in vain by the sun
Along the Rhine, the Neckar, and the Main.
Yet, Hessians! Where are your brethren?
No victory flag yet waves there.
Generosity unfortunately lies in the grave,
And only lives on paper.

There and in the land of the Welfs,
One says to the storm: be still!
Oh fools! A nation is not like a blind person,
If it only wants to open its eyes.
The song that so mightily now rings out
Even at the foot of the Johannisberg (Mountain of John),
Do you believe that if it proves necessary,
The muskets will ring out less powerfully?

Do not play hard to get, dainty Saxony!
You were once at the head of the Germans.
You were called wise and steadfast,
And you did not quake before any ban.
Your clever one himself, your Moritz,
Still settled the debt honestly.
Your hero of Weimar died
Because Germany meant everything to him.

The ancient Hanseatic League
Is again hoisting its flags on the mast.
Oh Prussians, grasp the treasure
That is already in your hands!
Be doubly welcome, oh Bavaria,
That no longer peers over the mountain!
Do you recall the time when a Ludwig
Wielded the scepter like an emperor?

How you cleansed the German honour
So intrepidly of impurities!
Now lead the noble exiles
Quickly into your Valhalla!
And send a greeting with the Danube
To Austria and its eagle!
Call to him: Awaken, oh awaken!
Hasten to come to see clearly! literally - have a cataract operation

Oh children! It seethes in my arteries,
And what I dreamed of down there
Already I see it before me in the flesh,-
Why did you tarry so long?
Morning is dawning: now assemble
As brotherly comrades about me!
May the sun rejoice, which in rising
Shines upon a unified Germany!"