Greeting to my homeland | Homeland to which I returned

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by Hellmut Draws-Tychsen (1904 - 1973)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Gruß an die Heimat

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Heimat, da ich wieder kam, 
Stätte, wo die Erde lebt, 
schau, ich stehe traumumwebt
sonder Leid und sonder Gram.

Knarrst du altes Stadttor noch?
Spielt der flinke Sonnenschein
malerische Kringelein
in des Ratturms Fensterloch?

Ja ihr Alten bliebet jung.
Aber ich -- es scheint vielleicht 
Täuschung, die dem Wahne gleicht
aber ich altere in Erinnerung.

Unter mir knirscht feiner Sand.
Vor mir dehnt sich breit das Meer.
Leuchtend kommt der Lenz daher.
Junggebadet grüßt er dich, mein Land.

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Text Authorship:

by Hellmut Draws-Tychsen (1904 - 1973), "Gruß an die Heimat"

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), "Gruß an die Heimat", op. 40, Heft 2 no. 10 (c1939), published 1965 [ baritone and piano ], Schwäbisch-Hall: Musikverlag Schwäbisch-Hall [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Greeting to 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: 2022-10-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 77

Greeting to my homeland

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Homeland to which I returned,
Place where the earth lives,
See, I stand enveloped in a web of dreams
Without sorrow and without grief.

Do you still creak, you old city gate?
Does the agile sunshine [still] playfully
Paint little circles in
The window aperture of the city tower?

Yes, you old ones remained young.
But I -- it seems perhaps
A deception that is similar to madness
But I am aging in memory.

Under me, fine sand crunches.
Before me the sea stretches out broadly.
Radiantly, springtime comes along.
Bathed in the Fountain of Youth, it greets you, my country.

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This text was added to the website: 2022-10-04
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Word count: 100