Voice of my homeland | I am like the earth: cold and warm

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by Hellmut Draws-Tychsen (1904 - 1973)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Stimme der Heimat

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ich bin wie die Erde kalt und warm,
Ich bin wie der Himmel voller Freud voller Harm,
Ich bin wie der Regen, der erquickt und zerstört;
Ich bin die Liebe, die verdammt und erhört.
Was wissen die Menschen von sich und mir?
Teils gleichen sie Blumen, teils einem Tier.
Nur die Erde, die alte, weiß wie ich bin;
Ich lebe und strebe und sterbe nicht hin.
Ich bin wie die Erde, die Erde ist wunderbar weit
Ich bin wie der Himmel, der Himmel birgt Ewigkeit,
Ich bin wie der Regen, der erfrischt und zerreibt,
Ich bin die Liebe, die immer und ewig bleibt.

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Text Authorship:

by Hellmut Draws-Tychsen (1904 - 1973)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Julius Gessinger (1899 - 1986), "Stimme der Heimat", op. 40, Heft 2 no. 6 (c1939), published 1965, first performed 1940 [ baritone and piano ], from Mein Land, no. 6, Schwäbisch-Hall: Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Voice of my homeland", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2022-09-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 103

Voice of my homeland

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I am like the earth: cold and warm,
I am like the sky: full of joy, full of woe,
I am like the rain that refreshes and destroys;
I am the love that condemns and answers supplications.
What do people know of themselves and of me?
In part they are similar to flowers, in part to animals.
Only the earth, the old earth, knows what I am like;
I love and strive and do not die off.
I am like the earth, the earth is wondrously wide[,]
I am like the sky, the sky harbours eternity,
I am like the rain that refreshes and pulverizes,
I am the love that remains always and forever.

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This text was added to the website: 2022-09-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 114