Astres, musiciens célestes, votre chant,
Fait de vibrations qui semblent du silence,
S'unit à ma pensée, en rêves s'épanchant
Sur ces flots, où la lune émerge et se balance.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor: En Orient, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, Page 34.

Text Authorship:

• by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, written 1896, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 46, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1896 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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• a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
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• by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Astres, musiciens célestes", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 12, Paris, Éd. Heugel
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