Le pays natal | Sur l’onde paisible, le matelot s’en retourne joyeusement au pays

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by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843)

Translation © by Stéphane Goldet, Pierre de Rosamel

Die Heimat

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE

Froh kehrt der Schiffer heim an den stillen [Strom]¹
   Von fernen Inseln, wo er geerntet hat;
      Wohl [möcht' auch ich]² zur Heimat wieder;
         Aber was hab' ich, wie Leid, geerntet? -
 
Ihr holden Ufer, die ihr mich auferzogt,
   [Stillt ihr der Liebe Leiden? ach!]³ gebt ihr mir,
      Ihr Wälder meiner Kindheit, wann ich
         [Komme]⁴, die Ruhe noch Einmal wieder?

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• H. Eisler • H. Eisler

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Confirmed with Friedrich Hölderlin Sämtliche Gedichte und Hyperion, Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1999, page 200

Note (provided by Sharon Krebs): Hölderlin published two versions of this poem - this one with two stanzas and a longer one with six stanzas. Only the first two lines are the same.

¹ Eisler: "Strome"
² Eisler: "möchte ich gern"
³ Eisler: "Ach!"
⁴ Eisler: "wiederkehre".

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Die Heimat" [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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Die Heimat", op. 61 no. 2, published 1963, from Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Die Heimat", 1943, from Hölderlin Fragmente, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Die Heimat", from Hollywooder Liederbuch, no. 40 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Josef Matthias Hauer (1883 - 1959), "Die Heimat", op. 12 (Drei Lieder) no. 3 (1915) [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Le pays natal

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Sur l’onde paisible, le matelot s’en retourne joyeusement au pays
depuis les îles lointaines, moisson faite ;
j’aimerais bien moi aussi rentrer au pays ;
mais qu’ai-je moissonné qui ne soit à douleur ?

O vous rivages chéris, qui m’avez autrefois vu grandir,
apaiserez-vous le mal d’amour ? Me rendrez-vous
à mon retour, forêts de mon enfance,
le repos récurrent ?

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Die Heimat"
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This text was added to the website: 2014-11-14
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Word count: 56