by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Said one among them ‑‑ "Surely not in...
Language: English  after the Persian (Farsi)
Said one among them -- "Surely not in vain "My substance of the common Earth was ta'en "And to this Figure moulded, to be broke, "Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."
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Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 84, first published 1879 [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), "Said one among them -- "Surely not in vain", published [1909] [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part III, no. 3, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-22
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Word count: 31