Everything is a chess game | Everything is a chess game of days, of nights

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Todo es un ajedrez

Language: Spanish (Español) after the Persian (Farsi)

Our translations: ENG

Todo es un ajedrez de días, de noches 
con que el destino se divierte de los hombres;
Nos mueve a su antojo, nos da jaque mate y al final
nos vuelve a poner la gaveta de la nada.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Luis Sandi (1905 - 1996), "Todo es un ajedrez", 1966 [ low voice and piano ], from Poemas del amor y de la muerte [Epigrafes griegos y Rubaiyat, de Omar Khayyam], no. 9, Ediciones Mexicanas de Música [sung text checked 1 time]

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, Fourth Edition, no. 69, first published 1879 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley.

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ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Everything is a chess game", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2021-02-25
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Everything is a chess game

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

Everything is a chess game of days, of nights,
with which destiny amuses herself with humans;
She moves us at her whim, checkmates us, and finally
places us again [in] the drawer of the void.

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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2021-02-24
Line count: 4
Word count: 35