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by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

Quand tu chancelles sous le poids de la douleur
 (Sung text for setting by J. Cras)
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Language: French (Français)  after the Persian (Farsi) 
Quand tu chancelles sous le poids de la douleur,
quand tu n'as plus de larmes,
pense à la verdure qui miroite après la pluie.
Quand la splendeur du jour t'exaspère, 
quand tu souhaites qu'une nuit définitive 
s'abatte sur le monde,
pense au réveil d'un enfant.

Composition:

    Set to music by Jean-Émile-Paul Cras (1879 - 1932), "Quand tu chancelles sous le poids de la douleur", 1924, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Robaiyat, no. 4, Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert)

Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Robaiyat, no. 147, Paris, Éd. Piazza, first published 1924

Based on:

  • a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting

This text was added to the website: 2003-12-03
Line count: 7
Word count: 45

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