by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
When you and I behind the veil are past
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last --
...
Composition:
- Set to music by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), no title, 1896, lines 1-2 [ contralto solo ], from In a Persian Garden, no. 12
Text Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 48, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 47, first published 1868
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