Heureux qui comme Ulysse (Happy the man who like Ulysses) for alto and guitar (mp3) by David Warin Solomons Classical Guitar - Audio

Setting of the poem by Joachim du Bellay, composed and performed by David Warin SolomonsScore:https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/19982914?aff_id=175705 Original Poem followed by my (somewhat free) translation:Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, 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, hélas, de mon petit villageFumer la cheminée: et en quelle saisonRevoiray-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 roamingor he who took the Golden Fleece, then in the gloamingcomes back home, a wiser man:lives with his own his remaining spanBut as for me, when shall I seethe 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 pileTo that haughty rich façadeGive me my homely local tileNot Roman marble, proud and hardThe Gallic Loire, not Latin Tibergives me my power flows in my fibreThe Palatine and salt sea airare not so fine as Anjou fair(c) David W Solomons 2009