In a Persian garden : a song-cycle for four solo voices (soprano, contralto, tenor, and bass) with pianoforte accompaniment / the words selected from the Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald's translation) ... ; the music composed by Liza Lehmann ...
Material type: ScorePublisher number: M.7789 | MetzlerLanguage: English Original language: Persian Publication details: London : Metzler & Co. ; [New York : G. Schirmer, 1898], c 1896.Description: 1 score (8, 76 p.) ; 31 cmSubject(s):Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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American issue of English sheets; name of American pub./dist. from imprint in cover title.
"Design copyright 1898 by G. Schirmer"--p. 1 of wrappers.
Includes text of 31 quatrains, p. [5]-8, 1st series.
cf. Potter, A.G. Bib. of the Rubaiyat, no. 685.
Wake! for the sun who scatter'd into flight -- Before the phantom of false morning died -- Now the new year reviving old desires -- Irám indeed is gone with all his rose -- Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring -- Whether at Naishapur or Babylon -- Ah, not a drop that from our cups we throw -- I sometimes think that never blows so red -- A book of verses underneath the bough -- Myself when young did eagerly frequent -- Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend -- When you and I behind the veil are past -- But if the soul can fling the dust aside -- I sent my soul through the invisible -- Alas! that spring should vanish with the rose! -- The worldly hope men set their hearts upon -- Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say -- They say the lion and the lizard keep -- Ah, fill the cup! what boots it to repeat -- Ah, moon of my delight, that knows no wane -- As then the tulip for her morning sup -- Alas! that spring should vanish with the rose!