Name: Heureux qui comme Ulysse
Duration: P00H02M21S
Description: A setting of the poem by Joachim Du Bellay in which he laments his (so-called) humble home while he is stuck in resplendent Rome

Heureux qui comme Ulysse

from Romantic Inspirations by David Warin Solomons and the dwsChorale

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A setting of the poem by Joachim Du Bellay in which he laments his (so-called) humble home while he is stuck in resplendent Rome

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Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, [English translation below]
a fait un beau voyage,
Ou comme cestuy là qui conquit la toison,
Et puis est retourné, plein d'usage et raison,
Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son aage!
Quand revoiray-je, helas, de mon petit village
Fumer la cheminée: et en quelle saison
Revoiray-je le clos de ma pauvre maison*,
Qui m'est une province, et beaucoup d'avantage?
Plus me plaist le sejour qu'ont basty mes ayeux,
Que des palais Romains le front audacieux:
Plus que le marbre dur me plaist l'ardoise fine,
Plus mon Loyre Gaulois, que le Tybre Latin,
Plus mon petit Lyré, que le mont Palatin,
Et plus que l'air marin la doulceur Angevine.

Happy the man, like Ulysses,
who's done his roaming
or he who took the Golden Fleece,
then in the gloaming
comes back home,
a wiser man:
lives with his own
his remaining span
But as for me,
when shall I see
the homely smoke
of my own chimney?
the garden plot
of my little home*?
My own domain
means more than Rome!
I much prefer the family pile
To that haughty rich façade
Give me my homely local tile
Not Roman marble, proud and hard
The Gallic Loire,
not Latin Tiber
gives me my power
flows in my fibre
The Palatine
and salt sea air
are not so fine
as Anjou fair
(c) David W Solomons 2009

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from Romantic Inspirations, released February 27, 2015

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David Warin Solomons Sale, UK

Composer from UK born in 1953, concentrating on lyrical and tonal works for chamber music combinations, solo voice and choral works.

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