by
Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard
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
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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:
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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
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[Administrator] , Grant Hicks
[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 28
Word count: 183
Language: English after the French (Français)
By day give thanks, by night be wary.
Half the world was gentleness,
the other showed blind rigidity.
A merciless present could be read in the veins;
in the beauties of outlines the limited space
cemented all the joints of familiar objects.
A table, a guitar, and an empty glass
on an acre of solid earth
and white canvas and night air.
The table had to hold itself up,
the lamp to remain a seed of shade,
the newspaper was leaving its other half.
Twice a day, twice a night,
from two objects comes a double object,
a single whole forever.
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-5 of the original text.
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