Nun schweige mir jeder von seinem Leid und noch so tiefer Not. Sind wir nicht alle zum Opfer bereit und zu dem Tod? Eines steht groß in den Himmel gebrannt: Alles darf untergehn. Deutschland, unser Kinder- und Vaterland, Deutschland muß bestehn!
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Confirmed with Aus den Tagen des großen Krieges: Deutsche Kriegslieder 1914 / 15, ed. by Carl Busse, Bielefeld/Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1915, page 10.Text Authorship:
- by Will Vesper (1882 - 1962), "Mahnung" [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 Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher (1881 - 1948), "Mahnung", op. 30 no. 1, published c1915 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Kriegslieder, no. 1, Leipzig : Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
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