La mélodie aimante et calme de la nuit 
S'écoule sur la ville apaisée ; et tout bruit
Auprès de nous s'éteint pour la laisser entendre ; 
-- Et le chant de tes yeux se fait aussi plus tendre.

Text Authorship:

• by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 36, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1896

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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 12.

Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.

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Par les rameaux silencieux 
Vois les gouttes du clair de lune 
Couler sur les fleurs une à une, 
Larmes pâles tombant des cieux.

Text Authorship:

• by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 86

Based on:

• a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 54.

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Fraternise, ô mon âme, avec les astres d'or,
Âmes aussi, brûlant par la nuit infinie, 
Brûle comme eux, palpite, aime et souffre, aime encor ; 
Avec l'aube et les soirs sublimes communie.

Text Authorship:

• by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 35, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1896

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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 12.

Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

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