Halte Dein Blut rein,
Es ist nicht nur Dein,
Es kommt weit her,
Es fließt weit hin,
Es ist von tausend Ahnen schwer,
und alle Zukunft strömt darin!
Halte rein das Kleid
deiner Unsterblichkeit!

Keep your blood pure,
it's not just yours,
it comes from far away,
it flows far down,
it has the weight of a thousand ancestors
and all the future rests therein!
Keep clean the dress
of your immortality!

From a booklet in possesion of my late paternal Grandmother, published 1940
in Germany, when she was 21 years old. She underlined parts of it in red
and kept it all her life.