by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel, And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour -- well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the Goods they sell.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 71, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 103, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 95, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 95, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- 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), "And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel", published [1909] [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part III, no. 14, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-22
Line count: 4
Word count: 33