In a Persian Garden. A Song-Cycle for four solo voices ... with Pianoforte Accompt. The words selected from the RubaiyaÌt of Omar KhayyaÌm (Fitzgerald's Translation), etc

A PERSIAN GARDEN A SONG CYCLE FOR FOUR SOLO VOICES (SOPRANO CONTRALTO TENOR b BASS) WITH PIANOFORTE ACCOMPANIMENT

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A PERSIAN GARDEN. A

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(SOPRANO, CONTRALTO, TENOR, AND BASS) Witb

Hccompaniment

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RUBAIYAT OF

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Solo Tenor. Recitative

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Solo Bass.

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all

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of Spring

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book of verses underneath the bough

Myself when young did eagerly frequent

Contralto Solo.

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Tenor Solo.

if

sent

my

soul through the invisible "

Alas

Contralto Solo.

Quartette.

"

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Soprano Solo.

Tenor

But

!

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Bass Solo.

"

Quartette.

"

Ah,

fill

Ah, moon of

As

hope men

set their hearts

the cup

my

!

what boots

delight, that

Alas

!

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37

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39

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43

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45

it

to repeat

knows no wane

then the tulip for her morning sup

3'

32

a thousand roses brings, you say

say the lion and the lizard keep "

(Recitative).

Tenor Solo.

worldly

Each morn

They

30

the soul can fling the dust aside"

that Spring should vanish with the rose

The

30

"

veil are past

" (Recitative).

Soprano Solo.

behind the

21

25

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend" I

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Bass (Recitative).

you and

jfl

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sometimes think that never blows so red

"

Soprano

"

Ah, not a drop that from our cups we throw

Tenor).

2

• • •

old desires"

his rose

Naishapur or Babylon "

Contralto Solo.

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new year reviving

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(Recitative).

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QUARTETTE. (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass.) Wake ! For the Sun who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the field of night, Drives night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's turret with a shaft of Light,

(Solo Tenor.) 1

Before the phantom of false morning died a voice within the Tavern cried Methought " When all the Temple is prepared within Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside ?

:

"

Recitative (Bass).

Now

the

new year

3

reviving old Desires,

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, " Where the " White Hand of Mose6 3 on the Bough Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

Iram indeed

is

(Solo Tenor.) gone with all his Rose,

And Jamshyd's* sev'n-ring'd Cup where no But still a Ruby kindles in the Vine, And many a Garden by the water blows.

one knows,

Quartette. (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass.) the Cup, and in the fire of Spring

Come, fill Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling. The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly and lo, the Bird is on the wing !

—

(Solo Bass.)

Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. 'The "

false

dawn

" ;

Suihi Kaxib, a transient light on the horizon about an hoar "True Dawn ": a well-known phenomenon in the East

before the Subhi Sddik, or '

Beginning with the Vernal Equinox. 'The " White Hand of Moses," Exodus iv. 6 when Moses draws forth his handnot according to the Persians " Leprous as Snow," but white as our May blossom In Perhaps, aoeording to them, also the healing Power of Jesus resided in nil Spring. ;

breath. *

Iram, a garden, planted by King Shaddad, and

now sunk somewhere

in the

sands

•/Arabia. *

Jamshyd's •er'n-ring'd oup was typioal of the Seven Heavens, Saves Planets Seven Seas, he, end was a Dimnittg Cvp.

Contralto

(Recitative).

Ah, not a drop that from our Cups we throw For Earth to drink of, but may steal below, 1

To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye There hidden, far beneath, and long ago. (Contralto Solo.) sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Csesar bled, That ev'ry Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head. I

And

this reviving Herb, whose tender green, Fledges the river lip on which we lean,

Ah — lean upon

—

it

From what once

lightly

—

—for who knows

lovely Lip

it

springs unseen.

Duet.

(Soprano and Tenor.) A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness Ah, Wilderness were Paradise enow

—

—

!

(Bass Solo.) Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument but evermore Came out by that same door where in I went.

—

With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, with my own Hand labour'd it to grow,

And And

this was all the Harvest that I reap'd, " I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd the two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust

Why, Of

their words to scorn and their mouths are stopp'd with Dust.

Like foolish Prophets forth

Are

scatter'd,

;

(Bass Recitative.) Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend I

(Contralto Solo.) you and I behind the veil are past Oh, but the long, long while the World shall

When

—

last

• The custom of throwing a HttU wine on the ground before drinking csnttnua* in PeraU

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(Soprano Recitative.) the Soul can fling the Dust aside And naked on the air of Heaven ride, Were't not a shame were't not a shame for In this clay carcase crippled to abide ? But

if

—

him

(Soprano Solo.) Soul through the Invisible, Some secret of that after-life to spell, And by-and-bye my Soul return'd to me And answer'd I myself am Heav'n and Hell I

sent

my

:

Heav'n but the vision of

fulfilled Desire Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.

And

(Tenor Solo.) that Spring should vanish with the Hose That youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close Alas

!

I

The Nightingale that

in the Branches sang, Ah, whence and whither flown again who knows

?

—

(Contralto Solo.) The worldly hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes, or it prospers and anon Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two is gone. ;

—

Think,

Whose

How

in this batter'd

Caravanserai, Portals are alternate Night and Day,

Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp, Abode his destined hour and went his way.

Waste not your hour

I

(Soprano Solo.) Each morn a thousand Roses brings, you say but where leaves the Rose of yesterday ? Yes, And this first Summer month that brings the Rose, 3 Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.

—

;

—

1

Quartette. (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass.) They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep, And Bahram, that great Hunter, the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep.

—

'Jamshyd, the "King Splendid" of the Peshdadian dynasty. " King Ksikohsd, otlM the Great"

'

8

some we lov'd, the loveliest and best That from his "Vintage rolling time has prest, Have drunk their Cup a round or two before,

Lo,

And

one by one crept silently to

rest.

Strange, is it not, that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the Door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

Ah,

(Tenor Recitative.) the Cup What boots it to repeat is time slipping underneath our Feet.

fill

How

!

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape after none, or bitter Fruit.

Than sadden

Ah, Love, could you and I with Fate conspire To grasp the sorry Scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits and then Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire

—

I

(Tenor Solo.) of my Delight, that knows no wane, of Heav'n is rising once again oft hereafter rising shall she look

Moon The Moon A.h,

How

Through

—

this

And when

same Garden

after

me— in

vain.

thyself with shining Foot shall pass

Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot Where

I

made one

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!

(Bass Solo.)

As then the Tulip for her morning sup Of Heav'nly Vintage from the Soil looks up, Do you devoutly do the like, till Heav'n To Earth invert you like an empty Cup.

—

So when that Angel of the darker Drink, At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not

—

shrink.

Quartette. (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass.) Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose, That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence and whither flown again, who knows ? Finis.

I

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PERSIAN GARDEN." A

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