J'avais la foi jadis | J'avais la foi jadis et n'ai plus que le doute

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

J'avais la foi jadis et n'ai plus que le...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

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J'avais la foi jadis et n'ai plus que le doute ; 
Je me sens, pour agir, moins allègre et moins fort. 
L’arbre de la science est l’arbre de la mort, 
Et ses fruits sont amers à celui qui les goûte.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 87.

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 2. Le Doute, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "J'avais la foi jadis", published 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2023-05-08
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