Franz Schubert: Der Wanderer, D 493

A track from the album "The Path of Life". Ilker Arcayürek sings Franz Schubert. Accompanied on the grand piano by Simon Lepper.
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The Wanderer. Poem by Georg Lübeck. Composed by Schubert in 1816.
I come from the mountains;
the valley steams, the ocean roars.
I wander, silent and joyless,
and my sighs for ever ask: Where?
Here the sun seems so cold,
the blossom faded, life old,
and men’s words mere hollow noise;
I am a stranger everywhere.
Where are you, my beloved land?
Sought, dreamt of, yet never known!
The land so green with hope,
the land where my roses bloom,
Where my friends walk,
where my dead ones rise again,
the land that speaks my tongue,
O land, where are you?
I wander, silent and joyless,
and my sighs for ever ask: Where?
In a ghostly whisper the answer comes:
‘There, where you are not, is happiness!’