by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
And, as the Cock crew, those who stood...
Language: English  after the Persian (Farsi)
And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted -- "Open then the Door! "You know how little while we have to stay, "And, once departed, may return no more."
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Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 3, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 3, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 3, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 3, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before", published 1906 [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part I, no. 3, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Murray (b. 1925), "And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before" [ baritone and piano ], from Songs from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Henry Houseley (1852? - 1925), "Part I", published 1917 [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from cantata Omar Khayyám, no. 1, cantata ; NY : H. W. Gray
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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-06
Line count: 4
Word count: 32