by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
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.
Composition:
- Set to music by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), no title, 1896 [ SATB quartet and piano ], from In a Persian Garden, no. 1
Text Authorship:
- 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
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2006-04-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 35