Your young breasts are fresh like the moonlight

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by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Tes jeunes seins sont frais comme le...

Language: French (Français)

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Tes jeunes seins sont frais comme le clair de lune.
Ta chair sous mes baisers semble une chair de fleur.
Oh ! comment les compter et décrire une à une,
Ces beautés en ton corps d'une exquise pâleur ?

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 20.

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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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. 19 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Your young breasts are fresh like the...

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Your young breasts are fresh like the moonlight.
Your flesh under my kisses seems the flesh of a flower.
Oh! how to count and describe them one by one,
These beauties in your exquisitely pale body?

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a text in French (Français) 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. 19
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