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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Entoure ce citron de blanc d'œuf informe
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER LIT
Entoure ce citron de blanc d'œuf informe
Enrobe ce blanc d'œuf d'un azur souple et fin
La ligne droite et noire a beau venir de toi
L'aube est derrière ton tableau

Et des murs innombrables croulent
Derrière ton tableau et toi l'œil fixe
Comme un aveugle comme un fou
Tu dresses une haute épée vers le vide

Une main pourquoi pas une seconde main
Et pourquoi pas la bouche nue comme une plume
Pourquoi pas un sourire et pourquoi pas des larmes
Tout au bord de la toile où jouent les petits clous

Voici le jour d'autrui laisse aux ombres leur chance
Et d'un seul mouvement des paupières renonce

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Poulenc 

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Confirmed with Paul Éluard, Œuvres complètes, Vol. 2, Paris: Gallimard, 1968, Page 50.

First appeared in the revue Labyrinthe, June 15, 1945, and then in Poésie ininterrompue, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, 1946.


Text Authorship:

  • by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1945, appears in Poésie ininterrompue, in Le travail du peintre, no. 1, first published 1945 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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