English translation of Clair de lune

by Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Clair de lune", op. 22 [ medium voice and piano ], from Reflets d'Orient, pour une voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Jules Hamelle, ancienne maison J. Maho

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[La pleine lune]1 avec son pâle enchantement
Extasiait la terre et charmait toutes choses ;
Les rossignols pleuraient dans le harem des roses,
Et nos cœurs dans la nuit se fondaient en aimant.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 30.

Note for line 1: in Fairchild's setting, in the repetition, "avec son pâle enchantement" is omitted.

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.

1 Moret: "La lune"

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J'ai fait de mon amour un monde hors du monde,
J’ai fait de mon amour un jardin enchanté,
Où dormira mon cœur en une paix profonde,
Où règnera la lune d’or de ta beauté.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 40.

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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Author(s): Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909)
The full moon with its pale enchantment 
Enraptured the world and cast a spell over everything;
The nightingales wept in the harem of the roses,
And our loving hearts intermingled in the night.

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1 Moret: "moon"


I have made of my love a world beyond the world,
I have made of my love a garden of enchantment,
Where my heart will sleep in profound peace,
Where the golden moon of your beauty will reign.

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