A bird tosses its brief notes into the night

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

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Un oiseau dans la nuit jette ses notes...

Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)

Our translations: ENG

Un oiseau dans la nuit jette ses notes brèves, 
Telles qu’entrecoupés les soupirs des amants : 
— Te souvient-il des longs soupirs et des serments 
Dont autrefois aussi s’entrecoupaient nos rêves ?

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 46.

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. 69 [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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ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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A bird tosses its brief notes into the...

Language: English after the French (Français)

A bird tosses its brief notes into the night,
Like the sighs of lovers, interrupted:
— Do you recall the long sighs and the vows
With which our dreams, too, once were intermingled?

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) 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. 69
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2025-06-16
Line count: 4
Word count: 33