"Ceļš uz dzimteni" (The Way to my Homeland)

Lyrics by P. Blaus.
Composed 1916, first publication 1921. The poem by Pēteris Blaus (1856–1930) is typical of the so-called refugee poetry, a branch of Latvian verse with a specific theme, written during the First World War when almost a quarter of Latvia's inhabitants were forced to leave their homeland.