Then said a Second -- "Ne'er a peevish Boy (Fitzgerald, set by (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)

Then said a Second ‑‑ "Ne'er a peevish...

Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)

Then said a Second -- "Ne'er a peevish Boy
"Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy;
"And He that with his hand the Vessel made
"Will surely not in after Wrath destroy."

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Authorship

by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 85, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 85, first published 1872 [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 Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Then said a Second -- "Ne'er a peevish Boy ", published [1909] [soli, chorus, and orchestra], from Omar Khayyám, Part III, no. 4, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [
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