Aussi bien que les cigales

Aussi bien que les cigales (FR) As Well as the Cicadas. Poulencs' setting (1948, Calligrammes #6) for voice and piano of the eighth poem in the Obus couleur de lune (Moon-Colored Artillery Shell) section of Calligrammes (Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War, 1913 – 1916) by Apollinaire. It was sent in a letter to Madeleine Pagès (B. 1894) on 12 February 1916, but there the form is quite different than in the final, published version; it is a true prose-poem, with many extra words not retained…