Claude Vinci - Paul Eluard - In Name of

Original Title: "Au nom"
Text: Paul Eluard (1943)
Year: 1963

In name of the perfect and deep forehead
In name of the eyes I am looking at
And the mouth I am kissing
For today and for ever
In name of the burried hope
In name of the tears in the dark
In name of the laughable complaints
In name of the laughs that scare
In name of the laughs in the street
Of the sweetness which binds our hands
In name of the fruits covering the flowers
On a good and beautiful earth
In name of the men in prison
In name of the deported women
In name of all our comrades
Martyred and massacred
For not having accepted the shadow
We have to drain wrath
And make the iron rise up
To preserve the high image
Of the innocent people hunted everywhere
And who will triumph everywhere