The great azure garden at night will open again

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

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Le grand jardin d'azur, la nuit, va se...

Language: French (Français)

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Le grand jardin d'azur, la nuit, va se rouvrir ;
Mon amour, allons voir loin de la foule humaine 
Venir à nous la Lune en sa robe de reine, 
Et dans ce jardin bleu les étoiles fleurir.¹

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• B. Fairchild

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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 19.

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.

¹ Fairchild adds "Viens ô bien-aimée, viens !"

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. 64, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Le grand jardin d'azur", op. 40 no. 1, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 1, London, Augener
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DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , "De grote tuin van azuur", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-30
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The great azure garden at night will...

Language: English after the French (Français)

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The great azure garden at night will open again;
My love, let us go and see, far from the human throng,
The Moon coming to us in her queenly robes,
And the stars blossoming in that garden of blue.¹

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¹ Fairchild adds "Come, O beloved, come!"

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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. 64, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1896
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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-27
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