by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and...
Language: English  after the Persian (Farsi)
The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left, as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field, He knows about it all -- HE knows --- HE knows!
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View text with all available footnotesAuthorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 50, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 75, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 70, 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), "The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes", published 1907 [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part II, no. 6, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
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, Fourth Edition, no. 70 ; composed by Henry Houseley.
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-21
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