Bleke avond, waarin al het geluid sterft

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

Translation © by Joost van der Linden

Heure pâle où se meurt tout bruit !

Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)

Our translations: DUT

Heure pâle où se meurt tout bruit !
Le monde est comme une féerie.
La robe noire de la nuit
Par le clair de lune est fleurie.

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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 16.

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. 55 [author's text checked 1 time 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 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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by R. Torre Alfina , "Heure pâle", published 1906 [ medium voice and piano ], in the supplement to Le Figaro, July 14, 1906
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Bleke avond, waarin al het geluid sterft

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the French (Français)

Bleke avond, waarin al het geluid sterft,
De wereld is magisch,
Het donkere nachtgewaad
In de manestraal is bloemenrijk.

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Based on:

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. 55
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2023-05-03
Line count: 4
Word count: 19