Here's my transcription from the sheet music at Indiana University Sheet Music Collections:

THE TWO GRENADIERS.
(DIE BEIDEN GRENADIERE.)
English words by L. C. Elson. Music by R. Schumann, Op. 49. No. 1.

Toward France there travell'd two Grenadiers,
Their Russian captivity leaving.
As thro' the German camp slowly they drew,
Their heads were bow'd down with grieving.

For there first they heard of a sorrowful tale,
Disasters their country had shaken.
The army so brave had borne rout and defeat,
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 amidst his tears:
"My wounds once again are burning."

The other spoke: "The song is done.
Would that I too were dying;
Yet I have 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 food, if they hungry be.
My Emp'ror, my Emp'ror is taken!

"Oh, grant a last request to me:
If here my life be over,
Then take thou my body to France with thee,
No soil but of France my cover.

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

"Then there shall I lie within the tomb,
A sentry still and unstirring,
Till the war of cannon resounds thro' its gloom
And tramp of the horsemen spurring.

"Then rideth my Emp'ror swift over my grave,
While swords with clash are descending,
While swords with clash are descending.
Then will I arise fully armed from my grave,
My Emp'ror, my Emp'ror defending."

[The sheet music also contains German lyrics, but there are some differences in spelling from the German lyrics I posted on 23 Mar 05 - 09:54 AM:

"Nach Frankreich sogen swei Grenadier...."]