Wake! For the Sun behind yon Eastern height 
Has chased the Session of the Stars from Night,
And, to the field of Heav'n ascending, strikes 
The Sultán's Turret with a Shaft of Light.

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• by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 1, first published 1868 [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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• by Henry Houseley (1852? - 1925), "Part I", published 1917 [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from cantata Omar Khayyám, no. 1, cantata ; NY : H. W. Gray
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• Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 1, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 1, first published 1872 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Arthur Foote, Liza Lehmann, Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 1, first published 1859 ; composed by Don Murray.
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