Look to the blowing Rose about us -- "Lo,
"Laughing," she says, "into the World I blow:
"At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 
"Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw."

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• by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 13, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 15, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 14, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 14, first published 1859 [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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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Look to the blowing Rose about us -- "Lo", published 1906 [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part I, no. 14, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]

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• by Henry Houseley (1852? - 1925), "Part 2", published 1917 [ soli, chorus, orchestra ], from cantata Omar Khayyám, no. 2, New York : H. W. Gray
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Francisco Mignone.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Frédéric Roger-Cornaz (1883 - 1970) , appears in Omar Khayyám. Les Rubáiyát, Paris, Éd. Librairie Payot et Cie ; composed by René Lenormand.
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