by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875)
Mon tour d'existence s'est écoulé en...
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Mon tour d'existence s'est écoulé en quelques jours. Il est passé comme passe le vent du désert. Aussi, tant qu'il me restera un souffle de vie, il y a deux jours dont je ne m'inquiéterai jamais, c'est le jour qui n'est pas venu et celui qui est passé.
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Confirmed with Les Quatrains de Khèyam, traduits de Persan par J. B. Nicolas, Paris, imprimé par ordre de l'Empereur à l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1867, page 14.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875), no title, appears in Les Quatrains de Khèyam, no. 22, first published 1867 [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]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Germain Desbonnet (1938 - 2007), "Mon tour d'existence", 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayam, premier recueil, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 29, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 32, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 29, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 29, first published 1859 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Michael Richard Miller.
- Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Luis Sandi.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2017-04-17
Line count: 5
Word count: 48