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Vine al mundo, como el agua que corre ciegamente, sin saber porqué ni de donde; y habré de abandonarlo como el viento que sopla en el desierto, sin saber adónde ni porqué. ¿Quién, sin yo pedirlo, me trajo aquí de lo ignorado? ¿Quién, sin yo quererlo, me arrojará después a lo desconocido? ¡Ah, bebamos copas y más copas, hasta olvidar tamaña necedad!
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Luis Sandi (1905 - 1996), "Vine al mundo", 1966 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poemas del amor y de la muerte [Epigrafes griegos y Rubaiyat, de Omar Khayyam], no. 7, Ediciones Mexicanas de Música [sung text checked 1 time]
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, First Edition, no. 29, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 32, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 29, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 29, first published 1859 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Michael Richard Miller.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875) , no title, appears in Les Quatrains de Khèyam, no. 22, first published 1867 ; composed by Germain Desbonnet.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "I came into the world", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2021-02-24
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Word count: 62
I came into the world like water that runs blindly without knowing why nor where; and I will leave it like the wind that blows in the desert, without knowing to where nor why, Who, without me asking for it, brought me here from the [unseen]? Who, without me desiring it, will hurl me after to the unknown? Ah, let us drink glasses and more glasses, until [we] forget such great nonsense!
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Based on:
- a text in Spanish (Español) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2021-02-23
Line count: 6
Word count: 72