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

Rayons des yeux
 (Sung text for setting by F. Van Nimwegen)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI GER
Rayons des yeux et des soleils
Des ramures et des fontaines
Lumière du sol et du ciel
De l'homme et de l'oubli de l'homme
Un nuage couvre le sol
Un nuage couvre le ciel
Soudain la lumière m'oublie
La mort seule demeure entière
Je suis une ombre je ne vois plus
Le soleil jaune le soleil rouge
Le soleil blanc le ciel changeant
Je ne sais plus
La place du bonheur vivant
Au bord de l'ombre sans ciel ni terre.

Composition:

    Set to music by Frank Van Nimwegen (b. 1961), "Rayons des yeux", 1995 [ SATB chorus ], from Six images intemporelles, no. 6

Text Authorship:

  • by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1938, appears in Le livre ouvert, in 1. Le livre ouvert, I, in Vue donne vie, no. 1, Éd. des Cahiers d'Art, first published 1940

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Ingrid Schmithüsen) , "Lichtstrahl der Augen", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 80

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