Je me rappelle qu’un jeune homme et moi, jadis, étions aussi inséparables l’un de l’autre que deux amandes dans une même coque. Un jour, le destin voulut que je parte. Des années passèrent. À mon retour, cet ami m’adressa de violents reproches : — Pourquoi ne m’as-tu pas jamais écrit, pourquoi n’as-tu jamais eu pitié de ma tristesse ? gémit-il. Je répondis : — Je ne voulais pas que [ta]1 beauté embrasât le cœur du messager … Ô mon ancien ami, sois indulgent ! Si tu savais combien j’ai été jaloux, combien j’ai souffert de penser que des étrangers pouvaient te contempler jusqu’à la satiété … Mais, je me trompais. Cela n’était pas possible, car personne ne se lasse d’un spectacle ineffable !
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View original text (without footnotes)1 K. Sorabji: "la"
Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La jalousie", appears in Gulistan. Le jardin des roses, Paris, Éd. Arthème Fayard, first published 1913 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī (1184 - 1273?) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "La jalousie", KSS 42 no. 2 (1926), published 1991, first performed 1999 [ male voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes du “Gulistān” de Saʿdī, no. 2, Bath, The Sorabji Archive [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "Jealousy", written 1995, copyright © 1995, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Edward Rehatsek) , Kama Shastra Society, first published 1888
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-28
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