Sur une route sonore s'accorde, puis se désaccorde pour s'accorder encore, le trot de deux chevaux attel é s'en paire, guidés par la même main. Plume et aiguille, habitude de travail et sage envie d'y mettre fin lient amitié, se séparent, se réconcilient.... Mes lents corsaires, tachez à aller de compagnie: je vois dici le bout de la route.
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Authorship:
- by (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Colette (1873 - 1954), appears in L'étoile vesper, last paragraph [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ned Rorem.
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This text was added to the website: 2004-08-04
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