by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard
La nature s'est prise au filet de ta vie
Language: French (Français)
La nature s'est prise [au filet]1 de ta vie L'arbre, ton ombre, montre sa chair nue : le ciel. Il a la voix du sable et les gestes du vent Et tout ce que tu dis bouge derrière toi.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Pépin: "aux filets"
Text Authorship:
- by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, appears in Capitale de la douleur, in Les petits justes, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1926 [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 (Jean Joseph) Clermont Pépin (1926 - 2006), "La nature s'est prise ", 1949, published 1997 [ voice and piano ], from Cycle-Éluard, no. 5, Édition Clermont Pépin [sung text checked 1 time]
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