Le grand jardin d'azur, la nuit, va se rouvrir ;
Mon amour, allons voir loin de la foule humaine 
Venir à nous la Lune en sa robe de reine, 
Et dans ce jardin bleu les étoiles fleurir.1

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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 19.

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 Fairchild adds "Viens ô bien-aimée, viens !"

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. 64, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Le grand jardin d'azur", op. 40 no. 1, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 1, London, Augener
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• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , "De grote tuin van azuur", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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