Wake! For the Sun behind yon Eastern...

Wake! For the Sun behind yon Eastern height 
Has chased the Session of the Stars from Night,
And, to the field of Heav'n ascending, strikes 
The Sultán's Turret with a Shaft of Light.

by Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) , no title, from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, no. 1b, second edition, published 1868

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)

[ None yet in the database ]

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

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.

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