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| The Atlantic Ocean seen from the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland (AWM) |
This is a rhyming translation of the opening lines to Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde; these lines are also quoted in the first part of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste-Land."
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Frisch weht der Wind |
The wind, fresh and wild |
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der Heimat zu: |
strikes homeward now; |
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mein irisch Kind, |
My Irish child, |
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wo weilest du? |
where dwellest thou? |