by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Language: English  after the Persian (Farsi)
That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare Of [Perfume]1 shall fling up into the Air, As not a True Believer passing by But shall be overtaken unaware.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 68, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 100, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 92, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 92, 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), "That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare", published [1909] [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part III, no. 11, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- 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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