Une ruine coquille vide

Une ruine coquille vide (FR) A Ruin Empty Shell. Poulenc's setting (1936, Tel jour telle nuit #2) for voice and piano of the third poem from the »Grand Air« (Great Outdoors) section of Les Yeux fertiles (Fertile Eyes, 1936) by Eluard. The poem's original title is »Je croyais le repos possible« (I believed repose possible). The song is dedicated to Freddy.