Ah, Love, could you and I with Fate conspire (Fitzgerald, set by L. Lehmann) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Ah, Love, could [thou]¹ and I with [Fate]² conspire
To grasp the sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would [not we]³ shatter it to bits -- and then
Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

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Note: number 73 in the first edition, 108 in the second edition, and 99 thereafter.
¹ Lehmann: "you"
² changed to "Him" in the third and fourth editions.
³ Lehmann: "we not"

Authorship

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Based on

text

Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048-c1122)

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Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

In a Persian Garden

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