Where Does it Begin, Our Beloved Land?

Where does it begin – our beloved Land…?
Begins with your first ABCs,
Begins with your best and most loyal friends,
Who live in that house you see,
Or maybe it starts with a lullaby
Your mother would sing you at night –
That song, which through hardships and challenges
Will sound in your heart and your mind…
 
Where does it begin – our beloved Land…?
A childhood bench by the gates,
A birch tree that swings in the open fields
To dance with the wind once again…
Or maybe it starts with that melody
The starling will hum in the spring,
A countryside road, which unendingly
Will take you wherever it brings…

Where does it begin – our beloved Land?
The windows lighting at dusk,
Our father’s old buttoned-up uniform
We chanced on, all covered in dust,
And maybe it starts with the rolling hum
Of train wheels just spinning away,
That passionate pledge in your heart and mind
You gave it in your youthful days…

Where does it begin – our beloved Land?