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Irrémédiable vie Vie à toujours chérir En dépit des fléaux Et des morales basses En dépit des étoiles fausses Et des cendres envahissantes En dépit des fièvres grinçantes Des crimes à hauteur du ventre Des seins taris des fronts idiots En dépit des soleils mortels En dépit des dieux morts En dépit des mensonges L'aube l'horizon l'eau L'oiseau l'homme l'amour L'homme léger et bon Adoucissant la terre Éclaircissant les bois Illuminant la pierre Et la rose nocturne Et le sang de la foule.
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Confirmed with Paul Éluard, Œuvres complètes, Vol. 2, Paris: Gallimard, 1968, Page 176.
Text Authorship:
- by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1948, appears in Voir. Poemes, Peintures, Dessins, in 6. De la lumière et du pain, no. 5, Genève, Éd. des Trois Collines, first published 1948 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Jacques Villon", FP 161 no. 7 (1956), published 1957 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Travail du peintre, no. 7, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Jacques Villon", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Jacques Villon", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Žakas Vijonas", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Unheilbares Leben Immer geschätztes Leben Trotz Geißeln Und niederer Moral Trotz falscher Sterne Und eindringender Schlacken Trotz zermürbender Fieber Tiefer Verstrickung in Verbrechen Vertrockneter Brüste dummer Gesichter Trotz sterblicher Sonnen Trotz toter Götter Trotz Lügen Morgendämmerung Horizont Wasser Vogel Mensch Liebe Mensch leichtherzig und gut Erweicht die Erde Erhellt die Wälder Erleuchtet den Stein Und die nächtliche Rose Und das Blut der Menge.
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- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2019 by Julia Henning, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1948, appears in Voir. Poemes, Peintures, Dessins, in 6. De la lumière et du pain, no. 5, Genève, Éd. des Trois Collines, first published 1948
This text was added to the website: 2019-12-05
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Word count: 63