They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshýd gloried and drank deep, And Bahrám, that great Hunter, -- the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, [but cannot break his sleep]1.
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
Set by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "They say the Lion and the Lizard keep", 1896 [ SATB quartet and piano ], from In a Persian Garden, no. 18  [sung text checked 1 time]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 17, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 19, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 18, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 18, first published 1859
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 in the first edition alone: "and he lies fast asleep"
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[For some]1 we [loved]2, the loveliest and [the]3 best That [from his Vintage rolling Time has prest]4, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 21, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 22, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 22, second and third editions, first published 1859
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 first edition: "Lo! some"; Lehmann: "Lo, some"
2 Lehmann: "lov'd"
3 omitted in the first edition; also omitted by Lehmann.
4 first edition: "Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest"
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Strange, is it not, that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the Door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 67, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 64, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 64, first published 1868
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]