In Frankreich erwacht die Sonn' | In Frankreich erwacht die Sonn'

Translation by Hans Guido, Freiherr von Bülow (1830 - 1894)

The sun rises bright in France

Language: English

The sun rises bright in France,
  And fair sets he;
But he has tint the blythe blink he had
  In my ain countree.

O, it 's nae my ain ruin
  That saddens aye my e'e,
But the dear Marie I left behin'
  Wi' sweet bairnies three.

My lanely hearth burn'd bonnie,
  And smiled my ain Marie;
I've left a' my heart behin'
  In my ain countree.

The bud comes back to summer,
  And the blossom to the bee;
But I'll win back, O never,
  To my ain countree.

O, I am leal to high Heaven,
  Where soon I hope to be,
An' there I'll meet ye a' soon
  Frae my ain countree!

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Confirmed with Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English Verse, Oxford: Clarendon, 1919.

Text Authorship:

by Allan Cunningham (1784 - 1842), "The sun rises bright in France" [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 John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "My Ain Countree", op. 362 (1952) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Guido, Freiherr von Bülow (1830 - 1894) ; composed by Hans Guido, Freiherr von Bülow.

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In Frankreich erwacht die Sonn'

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

In Frankreich erwacht die Sonn' 
in gold'nem Licht,
nur in mir lacht sie nie so hold, 
wie im Heimatland.

Nach Mary die Sehnsucht 
das Herz mir fast bricht
und den Kindern drei, die weilen 
fern im Heimatland.

O bitt'res Leid! 
Mein liebes Heim, 
o könnt' ich dich 
ein einzig Mal noch seh'n! 

Mein Herz ist nur 
bei dir allein 
in dem Heimatland.

O Himmel, erhöre gnädig 
das Fleh'n, vereine uns bei dir 
im ewigen Heimatland! 
O bitt'res Leid!

Text Authorship:

by Hans Guido, Freiherr von Bülow (1830 - 1894)

Based on:

a text in English by Allan Cunningham (1784 - 1842), "The sun rises bright in France"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Hans Guido, Freiherr von Bülow (1830 - 1894), "In Frankreich erwacht die Sonn'", subtitle: "Jacobiten-Lied", published 1879 [ voice and piano ], from Drei schottische Volkslieder, no. 2, München, Aibl [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-04-13
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Word count: 78