Ta beauté, quand tu pars, me laisse comme un chant,
Dont la tendre douceur tout entier me pénètre ;
Et mon âme s'emplit de soupirs l'étouffant,
Et ce chant merveilleux fait trembler tout mon être.

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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 30.

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. 37 [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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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Le chant merveilleux de ta beauté", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Oh ! Mon amour", op. 40 no. 2, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 2, London, Augener
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