Is she blonde? Is she brunette?

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by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Est‑elle blonde ? est‑elle brune ?

Language: French (Français)

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Est-elle blonde ? est-elle brune ?
Sous le magique clair de lune
Que rêve-t-elle en ce moment,
— Si loin de son futur amant ?

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 12.

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

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