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Von allen Zweigen schwingen Sich wandernde Vögel empor; Weit durch die Lüfte klingen Hört man den Reisechor: Nach Süden! Nach Süden! In den ewigen Blumenflor. Ihr Vöglein singt munter hernieder, Wir singen lustig hinaus. Wenn der Lenz kommt, kehren wir wieder, Wieder in Nest und Haus, Von Süden! Von Süden! Jetzt aber hinaus! hinaus!
Confirmed with Meine Lieder. Den Freunden aufgezeichnet, Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), 1861, page 74; note: the author is not specified in the book.
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From every branch there leaps a migratory bird, resounding far throughout the skies so that one hears a traveling chorus going to the south, to the south, to the land of everlasting flowers. You little birds sing gaily up there, we sing merrily out; when spring comes, we shall return, return to nest and house, from the south! But now - away!
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