Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of Light.

by Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) , no title, from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, no. 1a, first edition, published 1859

a text in Persian 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 Don Murray (1925-) , "Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night" [baritone and piano], from Songs from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, no. 1.

by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , no title, 1896 [SATB quartet and piano], from In a Persian Garden, no. 1.

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