by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Armand Robin (1912 - 1961)
Prends peur ! ton âme de toi va se...
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Prends peur ! ton âme de toi va se débarrasser ! Dans les mystérieuses terres de Dieu tu vas entrer ! Bois du vin ! tu ne sais pas d’où tu es venu ! Vis la vie ! sais-tu, vers où t’en iras-tu ?
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Text Authorship:
- by Armand Robin (1912 - 1961), no title, appears in Rubayat d'Omar Khayam, Éd. Club français du livre, first published 1958 [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), "Prends peur !", 1996 [ baritone and piano ], from Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayam, deuxième recueil, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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