Un ciel de soie
Azure l’eau.
Un chien aboie
Sur le coteau.

Note: In Papineau-Couture's score, there is no punctuation.

Text Authorship:

• by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Espace", written 1923-25, appears in Les livres des quatrains, in 1. Premier Livre, no. 5 [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 Papineau-Couture (1916 - 2000), "Espace", 1947, copyright © 1947 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatrains, no. 5, Montréal, Éd. Doberman-Yppan [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2017-01-24
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