From The Corona Song Book by William C. Hoff (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1903), Page 188, where it appears with musical notation for piano and 4 voices:


THE TWO GRENADIERS
Words, Heinrich Heine. Music, Schumann, arr. by W. C. Hoff.

To France were returning two grenadiers,
Their Russian captivity leaving,
And when they came to the German frontier,
Their heads were bow'd down with grieving.

'Twas there that they both heard the sorrowful tale:
Disaster their country had shaken;
Defeated and scatter'd the valiant host,
And the Emp'ror, the Emp'ror was taken.

Then sorrow'd together the grenadiers,
Such doleful news to be learning;
And one spoke out amid his tears:
"My wounds once again are burning."

The other said: "The song is done.
Would that I too were dying;
But I've a wife and child at home,
On me for bread relying."

"Nor wife nor child give care to me.
What matter if they are forsaken?
Let them beg their bread, if they hungry be.
My Emp'ror, my Emp'ror is taken!

"O grant me, brother, but one prayer:
If my hours I now must number,
My body take home to my native land.
In France let me peacefully slumber.

"My cross of honor with its band,
Leave on my bosom lying.
My musket place within my hand,
My sword around me tying.

"Thus will I listen within the tomb,
A sentry still and unstirring,
Till the war of cannon resounds thro' the gloom
And tramp of the horsemen spurring.

"Then over my grave will my Emperor ride
While swords with clash are descending.
Then arm'd to the teeth will I rise from the grave,
My Emp'ror, my Emp'ror defending.