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by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944)

Marine à Roscoff
Language: French (Français) 
Le ciel et la mer couleur de tableau d'école 
quand le torchon a passé pour essuyer la craie! 
Y-a-t-il un batelier vers la rive opposée 
vers le petit hôtel du promontoire. 
L'eau est profonde et noire, 
les rochers sont trop hauts et lisses pour un abri, 
le jour est sous l'abat-jour des nuages. 
La terre ondule... Qu'est-ce qui se passe 
dans les bols de moire 
qu'est-ce qui rôde autour de ces cônes déserts 
"J'entends ce que vous dîtes quand vous ne parlez pas."
Une cape sombre! une guérite verte 
la nuit bientôt: il fera dur en mer.

Text Authorship:

  • by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944), "Marine à Roscoff", written 1925?, appears in Les pénitents en maillots roses, Paris, Éd. du Sagittaire, Simon Kra, first published 1925 [author's text not yet checked 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 Henri-Pierre Poupard (1901 - 1989), as Henri Sauguet, "Marine à Roscoff", 1944, published 1949, first performed 1945 [medium voice and piano], from Les pénitents en maillots roses, no. 3, Éd. Heugel [ sung text verified 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 97

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