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by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875)

Vis dans l'allégresse, car le temps...
Language: French (Français)  after the Persian (Farsi) 
Vis dans l'allégresse, car le temps viendra 
où toutes ces créatures que tu vois disparaîtront sous terre ; 
bois, bois du vin et ne t'abandonne jamais au chagrin de ce monde. 
Ceux qui y viendront après toi n'en deviendront que trop tôt la proie.

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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 84.


Text Authorship:

  • by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875), no title, appears in Les Quatrains de Khèyam, no. 160, 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]
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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), "Vis dans l'allégresse", 1994 [voice and piano], from Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayam, premier recueil, no. 6. [ sung text not verified ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-04-17
Line count: 4
Word count: 43

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