by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Quand au matin la mer immense qui...
Language: French (Français)
Quand au matin la mer immense qui chatoie Est bruissante ainsi qu’une étoffe de soie, Il est doux sous les pins d’écouter, en rêvant, La lumière qui chante et rit avec le vent.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 24.
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. 26 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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