Music: Gian Carlo Menotti
It happened long ago.
We were still young, very young.
We had a house in France.
With a garden full of lilacs and mimosa.
The garden had a fountain,
A silly little fountain,
No more deep than that.
It was just his birthday two years old.
We had given him a little boat,
a lovely little sailboat.
I still don't know how it happened.
He was playing by the fountain.
I was not far away, cutting some lilacs for the house.
I never heard a sound
And when I looked.
And when I looked.
And when 1 looked.
There, there, don't cry.
You know that he is happier now than if he had lived.