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Poem: I lost my heart in Heidelberg! I lost my heart in Heidelberg's fair city, 'twas in a gentle summer night. I was in love, so deep in love entangled, Her rosebud mouth was laughing with delight. When at the gates at last we sadly parted, I kissed farewell her knowing in the end: My heart was lost in Heidelberg for ever: My heart still beats at the Neckar strand. One evening, remember, I was not twenty yet, Her hair was light and golden, the lips I kissed so red. The air was blue and blissful, into Neckar a silver sea, And then I knew, and then I knew, what the matter was with me. Again is on the Neckar the wine in blossom, as then, the years have been a-passing, I am a lonely man. And if you ask the fellow why he did no one find, I told you, friends, I told you friends, what there is on my mind. What has become of you, dear, since I had to be wise, Old Heidelberg, so beautiful, you German Paradise? I went away in sorrow, left happiness, ease and wine, I think of you, I long for you, you are my "auld lang syne"! |
