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4 landscapes

Song Cycle by Barbara Woof (b. 1958)

4. Rilke  [sung text not yet checked]

Subtitle: from “Quatrains valaisans”

Language: French (Français) 
Pays qui chante en travaillant, 
paxs heurex qui travaille; 
pendant que les eaux continuent leur chant, 
la vigne fait maille pour maille. 

Pays qui se tait, car le chant des eaux 
n'est qu'un excès de silence, 
de ce silence entre les mots 
qui, en rythmes, avancent. 

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 28

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