An 1860 lieder song for soprano or tenor
English words by George Cooper
Music by Eduard Lassen
Based on a poem by German poet Heinrich Heine
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- I saw again my lovely fatherland
The oaks that tower broad and grand
The clear and purling stream
It was a dream - I prest the cheek of one I loved in youth
And heard her words of hope and truth
Her eyes on me did beam
It was a dream - Tho’ far from home, my heart, my soul was there
My life no longer knew a care
How brief that joyful gleam
It was a dream
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: