L'Idylle persane

by Rodolphe Théophile Cahen d'Anvers, marquis de Torre Alfina (1869 - 1955)

. Heure pâle [sung text not yet checked]

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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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  • 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

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.


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La lune, tendre luth d’argent, 
Dont les rayons blancs sont les cordes, 
Avec mon cœur triste et changeant, 
Doucement, Allah, tu l’accordes.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 55.

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]

Author(s): Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909)
Total word count: 48