by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Le grand jardin d'azur, la nuit, va se...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: DUT
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.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed 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.
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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