by
Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Ces mensonges qui nous consolent de la...
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
Ces mensonges qui nous consolent de la vie
Et nous font pardonner à ce fol univers,
Aime-les ; aime ainsi la musique et les vers,
Et l’amour, ce ciel tendre en qui l’âme est ravie.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 51.
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Those lies that reconcile us to life
Language: English after the French (Français)
Those lies that reconcile us to life
And make us forgive this mad universe—
Love them; and so love music and poetry,
And love itself, that sweet heaven in which the soul finds delight.
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