by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky
Language: English  after the Persian (Farsi)
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it [Rolls impotently on as Thou or I]1.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 second and third edition: "As impotently rolls as you or I"
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 52, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 78, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 72, 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]
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), "And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky", published 1907 [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part II, no. 8, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
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, Fourth Edition, no. 72 ; composed by Henry Houseley.
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-21
Line count: 4
Word count: 32