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

Juan Gris
 (Sung text for setting by F. Poulenc)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG GER LIT
De jour merci de nuit prends garde
De douceur la moitié du monde
L'autre montrait rigueur aveugle

Aux veines se lisait un présent sans merci
Aux beautés des contours l'espace limité
Cimentait tous les joints des objets familiers

Table guitare et verre vide
Sur un arpent de terre pleine
De toile blanche d'air nocturne

Table devait se soutenir
Lampe rester pépin de l'ombre
Journal délaissait sa moitié

Deux fois le jour deux fois la nuit
De deux objets un double objet
Un seul ensemble à tout jamais

 ... 

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-5 of the original text.

Composition:

    Set to music by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Juan Gris", FP 161 no. 4 (1956), published 1957, stanzas 1-5 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Travail du peintre, no. 4, Éd. Max Eschig

Text Authorship:

  • by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Juan Gris", written 1948, appears in Voir. Poemes, Peintures, Dessins, Genève, Éd. des Trois Collines, first published 1948

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Juan Gris", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Juan Gris", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Juan Gris", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Chuanas Grisas", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 28
Word count: 183

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