by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Well," murmur'd one, "Let whoso make or...
Language: English  after the Persian (Farsi)
"Well," murmur'd one, "Let whoso make or buy, "My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry: "But fill me with the old familiar Juice, "Methinks I might recover by and by."
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Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 89, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 89, first published 1872 [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), "Well," murmur'd one, "Let whoso make or buy", published [1909] [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part III, no. 8, 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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