Un rossignol gémit dans l'ombre de mon âme, 
Il pleure au souvenir d’anciennes nuits d’été, 
Et d’une rose aussi dont l’ardente beauté 
Au milieu du jardin jetait comme une flamme.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 47.

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. 71 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Souvenir", op. 23 [ medium voice and piano ], from Reflets d'Orient, pour une voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Jules Hamelle, ancienne maison J. Maho
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