Si tu m'aimes ou non, je ne le veux savoir ;
Je t'aime et m'en contente, et ne sais qu'une chose,
C'est que ton corps exquis est doux comme la rose
Qu'en rêvant on respire et baise tout un soir.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 63.

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. 103 [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 Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Je ne chercherai pas", op. 40 no. 4, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 4, London, Augener
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• by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Que m'importe ! Je t'aime...", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies [1921], no. 2, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel
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