Where Klopstock, Goethe, Schiller, shine;
Where Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn
Were rivalled by thy sons alone,
Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Liszt;
No land beneath the sun exists,
Where genius, learning, science, art,
So brightly shine, so charm the heart:
Land of the rose and of the vine;
Land of Bavaria and the Rhine,
Accept Columbia’s grateful thanks;