Near to your heart all Summer

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

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Près de ton âme tout l'été

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

Our translations: ENG

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Près de ton âme tout l'été,
Je me suis nourri de lumière,
J’ai bu, j’ai mangé ta beauté,
J’ai bu ta clarté printanière !

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• E. Moret

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 42.

Text Authorship:

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, written 1907, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 62, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
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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
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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: 2023-02-11
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Word count: 23

Near to your heart all Summer

Language: English after the French (Français)

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Near to your heart all Summer,
I fed myself on light,
I drank, I ate your beauty,
I drank your vernal brightness!

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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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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, written 1907, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 62, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907
- 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: 2026-08-26
Line count: 4
Word count: 22