Quand le vent fait pleurer les flûtes des roseaux,
Que dans l'air froid du soir taisent les oiseaux,
Quand tombent le silence et l'ombre sur la plaine,
Ô mon âme, pourquoi ta tristesse soudaine ?

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 38.

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. 53, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

• a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
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• by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Heure pâle", op. 40 no. 7, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 7, London, Augener
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