This and the next verse include the Turner motto, “frisch, frei, stark und treu” (fresh, free, strong and true). As Annette Hofmann points out, the original motto had been “frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei” (fresh, devout, cheerful, free), but Turners who had emigrated to the United States after the Revolution of 1848 “quickly distanced themselves from the four ‘fs’.

Hofmann, Annette R. “From Jahn to Lincoln: Transformation of Turner Symbols in a New Cultural Setting.” The International Journal of the History of Sport. 26:13, 2009, 1946–1962.