by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
Sur la Terre, bariolée, chemine...
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Sur la Terre, bariolée, chemine quelqu'un qui n'est ni musulman, ni infidèle, ni riche, ni pauvre. Il ne révère ni Allah, ni les lois. Il ne croit pas à la vérité. Il n'affirme jamais rien. Sur la Terre bariolée, quel est cet homme brave et triste ?
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Robaiyat, no. 108, first published 1924 [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]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Carmen Brouard (1909 - 2005), "Sur la Terre, bariolée", 1960 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq interprétations d'Omar Khayyam, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-25
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