by Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414 - 1492)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
One who traveled in the desert
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
One who traveled in the desert Saw Majnun where he was sitting All alone like a magician Tracing letters in the sand.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), appears in Salámán and Absál, first published 1856 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami (1414 - 1492), appears in Salaman and Absal [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 Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000), "Letters in the sand", op. 273 no. 2 (1973), from Symphony no. 24, "Majnun", no. 2, SATB chorus, trumpet, and strings [text verified 1 time]
- by Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000), "Layla", published 1968 [medium voice and piano], NY : C. F. Peters [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-10-30
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