Welcome and Farewell

Friederike Brion

"Welcome and Farewell" (German: "Willkommen und Abschied") is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from the collection Sesenheimer Lieder [de]. It was published for the first time in 1775 in the women's magazine Iris [de]. Franz Schubert set it to music as a lied (D.767).