by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Puisque tu dois bientôt pourrir parmi...
Language: French (Français)
Puisque tu dois bientôt pourrir parmi les morts, Fais ivres de beauté ta jeune âme et ton corps ; Et viens voir frissonner la naissante verdure, Avant que ne l'engraisse un jour ta pourriture.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 37.
Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.
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. 52 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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