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Heure pâle où se meurt tout bruit ! Le monde est comme une féerie. La robe noire de la nuit Par le clair de lune est fleurie.
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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 16.
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.
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. 55 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Heure pâle", op. 40 no. 7, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 7, London, Augener
Score: IMSLP [external link] - by Rodolphe Théophile Cahen d'Anvers, marquis de Torre Alfina (1869 - 1955), "Heure pâle", published 1906 [ medium voice and piano ], from L'Idylle persane, in the supplement to Le Figaro, July 14, 1906
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- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2023-05-03
Line count: 4
Word count: 26
Bleke avond, waarin al het geluid sterft, De wereld is magisch, Het donkere nachtgewaad In de manestraal is bloemenrijk.
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- Translation from French (Français) to Dutch (Nederlands) copyright © 2023 by Joost van der Linden, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) 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. 55
This text was added to the website: 2023-05-03
Line count: 4
Word count: 19