Viel Glück, und dass es blüh' und wachs'
Das wünscht von Herzen euch Hans Sachs.
Something new in the old year! —
Good-Year.
R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 131
Wagner's Letters
Richard Wagner to Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck
Undated · Paris
Overview
A New Year's greeting in Hans Sachs's rhyming couplet, wishing the Wesendoncks that all may bloom and grow, sent with Walther's verses from Die Meistersinger as "something new in the old year."