Dere's a liddle fact in hishdory vitch few hafe oondershtand,
Deutschers are, de jure, de owners of dis land,
Und I brides mineself oonshpeak-barly dat I foorst make beknown,
De primordial cause dat Columbus vas derivet from Cologne.

For ash his name vas Colon it fisiply does shine,
Dat his Eldern are geboren been in Cologne on der Rhein,
Und Colonia peing a colony, it sehr bemerkbar ist,
Dat Columbus in America was der firster colonist.

Und ash Columbus ish a tove, id ish wort' de drople to mark
Dat an bidgeon foorst tiscofer land a-vlyin' from de ark;
Und shtill wider--in de peginnin', mitout de leastest toubt,
A tofe vas vly ofer de wassers und pring de vorldt herout.

Ash mein goot oldt teacher der Kreutzer to me tid ofden shbeak,
De mythus of name rebeats itself--vhitch see in his "Symbolik,"
So also de name America, if we a liddle look,
Vas coom from der oldt King Emerich in de Deutsche Heldenbuch.

Und id vas from dat fery Heldenbuch--how voonderful id ron--
Dat I shdole de "Song of Hildebrand, or der Vater und der Sohn,"
Und dishtripude it to Breitmann for a reason vhitch now ish plain,
Dat dis Sagen Cyclus, full-endet, pring me round to der Hans again.

Dese laws of un-endly un-windoong ish so teep and broad and tall
Dat nopody boot a Deutscher hafe a het to versteh dem at all,
Und should I write mine dinks all out, I tont peliefe, inteed,
Dat I mineself vould versteh de half of dis here Breitmann's Lied.

Ash der Hegel say of his system--dat only von mans knew
Vot der tyfel id meant--und he could n't tell--und der Jean Paul Richter, too,
Who saidt: "Gott knows I meant somedings vhen foorst dis buch I writ,
Boot Gott only wise vot das buch means now--for I hafe fergotten it."

And al of dis be-wises so blain ash de face on your nose
Dat der Deutscher hafe efen more intellects dan he himself soopose,
Und his tifference mit de over-again vorldt, as I really do soospect,
Ish dat oder volk hafe more soopose--und lesser intellect.

Yet oop-rightly I confess it, mitout ashkin' vhy or vhence,
Dere ish also dimes vhen Amerigans hafe shown sharp-pointet sense,
Und a fery outsigned exemple of genius in dis line
Vas dishblayed in dis elegdion py Mishder Hiram Twine.