作曲 : Cornelius Waldner
 作词 : Stefan George

 The sea resounds, on every coast the lustre,
 The rising and the ebbing of the surf,
 The flakes of shinning foam, the screaming birds!
 O Children of the Sea whose early dreams
 Divine the bliss of ever young horizons,
 Want and abundance, action and repose,
 The waters sing for you – your praises surge
 Within the hollow shell the sea abandoned,
 The shell a boy holds to his ear, and listens,
 And gazes out into the salty wind.

 For you the song, and now you live in us,
 Unfathomed, cool-eyed, as if just forsaking
 The lap of waters and yet unaware
 How close the end! What alien shimmer masks
 Your head with smiles of smooth malignant oceans?
 No god can help you steer an ever course.
 The wave that bore you washes you like flotsam
 And in the west still glistens with your hair.

 On azure shores the gentle midday murmur
 Of sun-enveloped seas evokes your face
 In palpable and luring loveliness.
 You stand among the throngs with sombre eyes,
 Your cheek suffused with summer, and are equal
 To those we name with awe who, bridled only
 By strength within them, lived erect, and light,
 And shinning as the body of the Foamborn.

 But you the sea has cast from south to north,
 You, the amazing blend of fire and ice,
 Of sudden zest for strife and flaccid pauses.
 Why cling to us, you ending of this age,
 Choose us along with other for your whims?
 You feel the drive of wish or wave, but soon
 Your soul will have exhausted every pale,
 And Moan and stray, too frail for love or faith.

 The ring is closed. The sea-god circles cliff
 And island with his song, he flings a spell
 And links the course of destinies with waters
 That press and thrust and throng, or plead and glide,
 Are almost quelled but gather for return…
 Now, scourged beneath the longed-for storm, the tide
 Engulfs what moulders, and the current snatches
 You too! And yet your souls remain and sound
 Within the hollow shell the sea abandoned,
 The shell a boy holds to his ear, and listens,
 And gazes out into the salty wind.