Guitars and mandolines

Charles Camille Saint-Saëns

Guitars and mandolines

Have a sound that inspires love.

Crunching on pralines,

Pépa allows herself to be charmed

When, throwing sharps and flats,

Mandolines and guitars

Resonate to disarm her.

Mandoline with guitar

Escort with their sound

Those lovers following the beacon

Of beauty in the night;

And Juana reveals, cat-like,

(Guitar with mandoline)

Her mouth and shining eye.