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[La pleine lune]1 avec son pâle enchantement Extasiait la terre et charmait toutes choses ; Les rossignols pleuraient dans le harem des roses, Et nos cœurs dans la nuit se fondaient en aimant.
About the headline (FAQ)
View text without footnotesConfirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 30.
Note for line 1: in Fairchild's setting, in the repetition, "avec son pâle enchantement" is omitted.
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 Moret: "La lune"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. 38, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907 [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):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Près de l'aimée", op. 40 no. 6, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 6, London, Augener
Score: IMSLP [external link] - by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Près de ton âme", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Heugel
Score: IMSLP [external link] - by Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Clair de lune", op. 22 [ medium voice and piano ], from Reflets d'Orient, pour une voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Jules Hamelle, ancienne maison J. Maho
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , 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: 2020-05-08
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Word count: 33
The [full moon]1 with its pale enchantment Enraptured the world and cast a spell over everything; The nightingales wept in the harem of the roses, And our loving hearts intermingled in the night.
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View text without footnotes1 Moret: "moon"
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2026 by Grant Hicks, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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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. 38, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907
This text was added to the website: 2026-08-26
Line count: 4
Word count: 34