by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
The Grape that can with Logic absolute
Language: English  after the Persian (Farsi)
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The [sovereign]1 Alchemist that in a Trice Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 43, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 61, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 59, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 59, 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), "The Grape that can with Logic absolute", published 1906 [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part I, no. 59, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-21
Line count: 4
Word count: 25