We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern held
In Midnight by the Master of the Show;

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Text Authorship:

• by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 73, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 68, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 68, first published 1868 [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]
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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), "We are no other than a moving row", published 1907 [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part II, no. 4, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]

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• by Henry Houseley (1852? - 1925), "Part 5", published 1917 [ soli, chorus, orchestra ], from cantata Omar Khayyám, no. 5, New York : H. W. Gray
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