Le bonheur est chose légère (Saint-Saëns, Camille)

Genre Categories	Romances; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; French language

Sheet Music

Scores

Complete Score
*#64930 - 0.32MB, 6 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 2075×⇩ - Daphnis

PDF scanned by Unknown
Daphnis (2010/5/24)

Publisher. Info.	Dix mélodies Paris: Choudens, n.d.(1878). Plate A.C. 3904.
Reprinted	Huntsville, TX: Recital Publications, 2007. Catalog 1269.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Purchase	Javascript is required for this feature.

Javascript is required to submit files.

General Information

Work Title	Le bonheur est chose légère
Alternative. Title
Composer	Saint-Saëns, Camille
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ICS 30
Librettist	Jules Barbier (1825-1901)
Language	French
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voice, piano

Navigation etc.

Le bonheur est chose légère, Passagère, On croit l'atteindre, On le poursuit, on le poursuit, Il s'enfuit!

Hélas! vous en voulez un autre Que le notre Il faut à vos ardent désirs Des plaisirs, Dieu vous préserve des alarmes Et des larmes Qui peuvent assombrir le cours Des beaux jours.

Le bonheur...

Si jamais votre coeur regrette La retraite Qu'aujourd'hui vous abandonnez, Revenez! De tous les chagrins de votre âme Je réclame Pour notre fidèle amitié La moitié!

Le bonheur...

English

Happiness is a light thing, fleeting, you think to attain it, you pursue it; you pursue it, it flies away!

Alas! you want a happiness different from ours; your ardent desires demand pleasures. God preserve you from troubles, and tears that can darken the course of beautiful days.

Happiness...

If ever your heart regrets this shelter which today you abandon, Return! Of all the troubles of your soul I claim for the sake of our faithful friendship, half!