Viens avec moi le long des verts herbages Qui sont entre les champs et le désert; Nul n’y distingue un sultan d’un esclave ! Nous y plaindrons le sultan sur son trône !
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Authorship:
- by Frédéric Roger-Cornaz (1883 - 1970), appears in Omar Khayyám. Les Rubáiyát, Paris, Éd. Librairie Payot et Cie [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by René Lenormand (1846 - 1932), "Viens avec moi", op. 116 no. 7, published 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], from Huit Rubaiyat de Omar Khayyam, no. 7, Paris, Édition 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 11, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 11, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 11, first published 1868 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley.
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