by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
Bois du vin! Tu recevras de la vie...
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Bois du vin! Tu recevras de la vie éternelle. Le vin est le seul philtre qui puisse te rendre ta jeunesse. Divine saison des roses, du vin et des arnis sincères! Jouis de cet instant fugitif qu'est la vie.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Robaiyat, no. 43, Paris, Éd. Piazza, first published 1924 [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 Carlos Tuxen-Bang (b. 1933), "Bois du vin ! Tu recevras de la vie éternelle", 1964 [ baritone and piano ], from Robaiyat d'Omar Khayyam, 15 quatrains traduits du persan par Frans Toussaint, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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