English Translation

Another harvest saying is: And if we are now at the threshold of a new year, then good day, most merciful Lord! let us become aware that only in the transience of happiness does the consistency of the whole rest. Unhappiness out to the gable! We bring with music and dance the very best harvest wreath. A boy — a girl — says: All the grain that stood in the field, is now up and in the band. The forest stands and silences, if you had only sown, Lord, descended from heaven, so that the men would have mowed even more The night with a low woe; and we girls more bound; but they have found the abundance. There fall white flakes We have raked everywhere, light on the earth curls over the mountain and over the valley, And glow on the hoof. Over the thistles and over thorns, Over the Lord's whole field, the grain. Deeply slumbers in the earth So much risple, What once fruit wants to be So much wisp, So much ahre, And again must forget, So many good years, It dreams in great delight So many thousand thalers give the tree of summer sun In the gracious dominion cabinets God the Lord, who steers everything for the best And from the winds Fleh'n. Now let us thank him, so rest a summer morning that he has not let anyone waver, that no one has done the scythe damage, hidden in the dense daun, that we bring the harvest happy. In the winter white dress; Also let us ask him that he may also protect us Perhaps sleep what we miss, from fire, hail, war and fire, already in the unknown And so also the whole country! The hibernation of time?! — We sing: [Siegfried Remann] We walk as pawns through our time ... We sing, "Our Songbook", page 101.] A year must pass now ("Our Song Book", page 125.) The (the) home evening leader says: This is how the year passes and flows back into winter. This year we have been reflected in the customs and experienced how intimately the Germanic man is connected with the natural events, how he draws strength from the land of his fathers, how the service of this land is to him. And have experienced that his senses do not seek God in far-off infinitudes, but feel him where he is alive: above, around, and in us! 744 745