Wake! For the Sun who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultán's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
In a Persian Garden
Song Cycle by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918)
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 1, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 1, first published 1872
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Before the phantom of False morning died Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried: "When all the Temple is prepared within Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?"
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Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, Where the "White Hand of Moses" on the Bough Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
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Irám indeed is gone with all his Rose And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows, But still a Ruby kindles in the Vine, And many a Garden by the water blows.
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling. The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly -- and lo, the Bird is on the wing!
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Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
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Ah, not a drop that from our Cups we throw For Earth to drink of, but may steal below To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye There hidden -- far beneath, and long ago.
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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled, That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head.
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A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread -- and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness -- Ah, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 12, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 12, first published 1872
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10. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Sung Text
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about; but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own Hand [wrought to make it]1 grow, And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd -- "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their words to scorn Are scatter'd, and their mouths are stopp'd with Dust.
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Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
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When you and I behind the veil are past
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last --
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But if the Soul can fling the Dust aside And naked on the air of Heaven ride, Were't not a shame -- were't not a shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some secret of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul return'd to me And answer'd: I myself am Heav'n and Hell.
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Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence and whither flown again who knows?
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The worldly hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes, or it prospers; and anon Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two -- is gone.
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Each morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, -- but where leaves the Rose of yesterday? -- And this first Summer month that brings the Rose, Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobád away.
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They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshýd gloried and drank deep, And Bahrám, that great Hunter, -- the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep.
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That from his Vintage rolling Time has prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest.
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Ah, fill the Cup: -- What boots it to repeat
How time is slipping underneath our Feet.
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Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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Ah, moon of my delight, that knows no wane, The moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same garden after me - in vain!
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot Where I made one - turn down an empty Glass!
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As then the Tulip for her morning sup Of Heav'nly Vintage from the Soil looks up, Do you devoutly do the like, till Heav'n To Earth invert you -- like an empty Cup.
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Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence and whither flown again who knows?
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