Je te voudrais donner un amour sans souffrance,
Sans ce regret qui suit chaque désir humain, 
— Regret ou haine, ou pire encore, indifférence, 
Une fête d*amour qui fût sans lendemain.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 31.

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. 40 [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 Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Chimères", op. 21 [ medium voice and piano ], from Reflets d'Orient, pour une voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Jules Hamelle, ancienne maison J. Maho
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