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¡Ah, gocemos, ávidamente, de todo lo que pueda brindar la vida, antes de que también nosotros bajo el polvo descendamos! Polvo vuelto al polvo y, bajo el polvo yacer; sin vino, sin canciones, sin mujeres y sin fin!
Authorship
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- 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 Luis Sandi (1905 - 1996), "¡Ah, gocemos...!", 1966 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poemas del amor y de la muerte [Epigrafes griegos y Rubaiyat, de Omar Khayyam], no. 6, 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, First Edition, no. 23, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 26, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 24, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 24, first published 1859 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann, Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Ah, let us enjoy...!", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2021-02-23
Line count: 4
Word count: 38
Ah, let us enjoy avidly all that life can give before we also descend beneath the dust! Dust returns to dust, under the dust to lie, without wine, without songs, without women, and without end!
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- Translation from Spanish (Español) to English copyright © 2021 by Garrett Medlock, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Spanish (Español) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2021-02-23
Line count: 4
Word count: 35