La lune, tendre luth d’argent, 
Dont les rayons blancs sont les cordes, 
Avec mon cœur triste et changeant, 
Doucement, Allah, tu l’accordes.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 55.

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. 87 [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 Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Contemplation", op. 41, published 1917 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éditions Ricordi
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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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