Freude schoener gotterfunken Tochter aus elesium Wir betreten fuertrunken Himmlische dein heiligthum Deine zauber binden weider Was die mode streng geitheilt Alle menchen werden bruder Wo dein sanfter fluegel weilt This is all I can furnish from memory, and without German accents on my keyboard, it's the best I can do. Am I close, Thomas Stearns? Hal
No “s“, please, just Stearn and an @Thomas Stearn will help to notify me. I don't want to miss out on any alerts. Yes, that's quite close and when you say you wrote that from memory, it's amazing. I live not far from the house in which Schiller wrote it. It's a museum today.
OK, Herr Stearn! Danke Schoen! When I play Beethoven's 9th, I like to sing along in German with the 4th movement, the "Ode to Joy"! Hal
@Hal Pollner Without a translation, it probably won't mean too much to anyone who has no clue to what the lyrics are.
Here are those lines in English. Joy, beautiful spark of Divinity [or: of gods], Daughter of Elysium, We enter, drunk with fire, Heavenly One, thy sanctuary! Your magic binds again What custom strictly divided; All people become brothers, Where your gentle wing abides.
Thanks, Thomas...Sehr gut! Hal (My 16-year-old Granddaughter is taking German in high school, and her Sister is taking Spanish.) My Wife took French in college. I took Spanish in High School. Harold