Greetings from a distant land | They greet you from a distant land

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by H. von Tharau

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Es grüsset dich aus fernem Land

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Es grüsset dich aus fernem Land
Manch' heimathlicher Stern,
Er traget über's weite Meer
Gedanken aus der Fern'.

Die Flammenschrift, wir lesen sie 
gemeinsam jede Nacht,
und jedes Herz des andern denkt
auf seiner stillen Wacht!

Der Zeichen tief empfund'ner Sinn,
Wir können ihn versteh'n,
Und meine Nähe fühlest du,
Das weiss ich, ungeseh'n!

Text Authorship:

by H. von Tharau [author's text not yet checked 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 Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Es grüsset dich aus fernem Land", published 1897 [voice and piano], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Frankfurt a/M., Firnberg [
text verified 1 time
]

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ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Greetings from a distant land", copyright © 2012

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This text was added to the website: 2012-11-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 54

Greetings from a distant land

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

They greet you from a distant land,
Many a star from home;
carried across the wide ocean 
come thoughts from afar.

We read this script of flames
together every night
and each heart thinks of the other
at one's silent watch.  

The signal of deeply-felt meaning -
we can understand it;
and you feel I am near -
this I know, without seeing!

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2012 by Emily Ezust
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This text was added to the website: 2012-11-16
Line count: 12
Word count: 61