Of all the springtimes of the world

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

Translation © by Grant Hicks

De tous les printemps du monde

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

De tous les printemps du monde
Celui-ci est le plus laid
Entre toutes mes façons d'être
La confiante est la meilleure

L'herbe soulève la neige
Comme la pierre d'un tombeau
Moi je dors dans la tempête
Et je m'éveille les yeux clairs

Le lent le petit temps s'achève
Où toute rue devait passer
Par mes plus intimes retraites
Pour que je rencontre quelqu'un

Je n'entends pas parler les monstres
Je les connais ils ont tout dit
Je ne vois que les beaux visages
Les bons visages sûrs d'eux-mêmes

Sûrs de ruiner bientôt leurs maîtres.

I. Weisshaus sets stanza 4

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Text Authorship:

by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Bientôt" [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "De tous les printemps du monde", FP 120 no. 1 (1943), first performed 1946 [ chorus ], from cantata Figure humaine, no. 1, Éditions Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
by Imre Weisshaus (1904 - 1987), as Paul Arma, "Confiance", 1942-4, stanza 4 [ voice and piano ], from Les chants du silence : Recueil de onze mélodies, no. 2, Paris : Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2021-01-22
Line count: 17
Word count: 94

Of all the springtimes of the world

Language: English after the French (Français)

Of all the springtimes of the world 
This one is the ugliest 
Among all my ways of being
The best is to trust

The grass lifts up the snow 
Like a tombstone 
As for me, I sleep during the storm
And awaken with bright eyes

The slow short time is coming to an end
When every road had to pass
By my most intimate retreats
So that I might meet someone

I do not hear the monsters speaking 
I know them they have said everything 
I see only the beautiful faces
The good faces sure of themselves

Sure soon to ruin their masters.

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Translations of titles:
"Bientôt" = "Soon"
"Confiance" = "Trust"
"De tous les printemps du monde" = "Of all the springtimes of the world"

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a text in French (Français) by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Bientôt"
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This text was added to the website: 2026-04-18
Line count: 17
Word count: 103