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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

L'avenir
Language: French (Français) 
Soulevons la paille
Regardons la neige
Écrivons des lettres
Attendons des ordres

Fumons la pipe
En songeant à l’amour
Les gabions sont là
Regardons la rose

La fontaine n’a pas tari
Pas plus que l’or de la paille ne s’est terni
Regardons l’abeille
Et ne songeons pas à l’avenir

Regardons nos mains
Qui sont la neige
La rose et l’abeille
Ainsi que l’avenir

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "L'avenir", appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 6. La tête étoilée, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918 [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "L'avenir", 1939 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-02-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 63

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