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six texts translated from the original Arabic into English, three of which by Ameen Rihani (Amīn Fāris al-Rīḥānī, 1876-1940), and the other three by Kahlil Gibran (Ǧubrān Ḫalīl Ǧubrān, 1883-1931). Musical scores and the original texts are provided with the translations of the Syrian/Lebanese folk songs, arranged by the Cypriot-born American composer, conductor, and pianist of Lebanese origin Anis Fuleihan (Anīs Fulayḥān, 1900-1970).</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />The songs translated by Rihani are <em>al-Dabkah</em>, with the title <em>Across The Bridge, O Come</em>, <em>Taftā Hindī</em> (Indian Taffeta), and <em>Marmar Zamānī,</em> with the title <em>My Day is Bitter.</em> Those translated by Gibran are <em>Mūlayyā,</em> with the title <em>O Mother Mine, Sāla dam‘aī,</em> with the title <em>I Wandered Among the Mountains</em>, and <em>Mīǧānā,</em> with the title <em>Three Maiden Lovers</em>. 1 All these six translations were individually republished five years after in «The Syrian World». 2</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Here below are the transcriptions of the three Gibran’s texts.</p> <div> </div> <div><img src="/images/Three_Lebanese_Folk_Songs_Translated_into_English_by_Kahlil_Gibran/book_cover.png" width="800" height="581" alt="Folk Songs of Many Peoples II (Cover) " style="display: block; margin: 15px auto;" /></div> <p style="text-align: justify;">Folk Songs of Many Peoples.. is full of lyrics and musical scores. The original texts are provided with translations of the Syrian/Lebanese folk songs arranged by the Cypriot-born American composer, conductor, and pianist of Lebanese origin Anis Fuleihan <em>(Anīs Fulayḥān, 1900-1970)</em>. The songs translated by <em>Rihani are al-Dabkah,</em> with the title <em>Across The Bridge, O Come, Taftā Hindī</em> (Indian Taffeta), and Marmar Zamānī, with the title <em>My Day is Bitter.</em> Those translated by Gibran are <em>Mūlayyā</em>, with the title <em>O Mother Mine; Sāla dam‘aī,</em> with the title <em>I Wandered Among the Mountains; and Mīǧānā,</em> with the title <em>Three Maiden Lovers.</em> 1. All these six translations were individually republished five years later in <em>«The Syrian World»</em>. 2. Below are the transcriptions of the three of Gibran’s texts.</p> <p><img src="/images/Three_Lebanese_Folk_Songs_Translated_into_English_by_Kahlil_Gibran/Folk_Songs_O_Mother_Mine.png" alt="Folk Songs O Mother Mine By Kahlil Gibran " style="display: block; margin: 15px auto;" /></p> <p>1.</p> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: center;">O Mother Mine (Moulaya)</div> <div style="text-align: center;">O mother mine, spread me the silken sheet,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And let me lie down and cover myself with rose leaves.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">For love-sick am I, and flames of love consume me.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And if I die tomorrow, Mother, I pray you</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Call around me, my comrades, the daughters of love,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And over my bier, let them sing me my dirge.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">O mother mine, yesterday our secret was our own;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Today, who does not know it?</div> <div style="text-align: center;">My love has gone afar,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And now I would write to him.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">If you deny me the paper, I’ll write on wings of birds;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And if ink you deny me, I’ll write with my heart’s blood!</div> </blockquote> <div> </div> <div>2.</div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: center;">O you, who are climbing the mountain,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">A drink will you not give me from the hollow of your hand?</div> <div style="text-align: center;">In truth, I am not thirsty,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">But I would have a word with you;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And it may be the wind will lift your scarf</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And let me look full at your face!</div> <div style="text-align: center;">I Wandered Among the Mountains</div> <div style="text-align: center;">I wandered among the mountains, searching for my lark,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And I found him, but alas! In another maiden’s cage.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">With the tinkling of gold, I sought to lure him into my cage;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">But she sang and said, ‘Go your way. Your day is forever by’.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">They said to me, ‘Your love is ill and wasted, and tomorrow he will die’.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Then, to a carpenter, I went and ordered a coffin</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Whose lock is of gold and whose key of a ruby carved;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And tomorrow, how astonished the kingdom will be</div> <div style="text-align: center;">When they behold two youths in but a single coffin!</div> <div style="text-align: center;">My love now wears a black shirt woven of hair.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Like thorns, it wounds his skin.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Luckless may the weaver be;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And restless, the dyer!</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Some day, I shall seek the head of the monastery</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And plead for my love;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Then I shall tell him that one glimpse of love</div> <div style="text-align: center;">It is holier than all monasteries.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Who among you has not loved?</div> <div style="text-align: center;">In what heart does God not walk?</div> <div style="text-align: center;">See how close are the pomegranate seeds;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And behold the stars, how near and loving!</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Be quiet, my heart, and weep no more.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">He has forgotten you;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Forget him, too. But should you forget him,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Then will I tear you out of my bosom!</div> <div style="text-align: center;">O dark one, how often have I been blamed for your sake;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And each time I am blamed, my love grows stronger.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">You are the rose, and I, the dew that refreshes you;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">You are the silken garments, and I, the wind that moves you;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">You are the Pleiades, and I, Orion, following you;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">You are the moon, and I, the stars that watch over you.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Three Maiden Lovers</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Three maiden lovers stood by the wine press.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">One longed silently for her love, who was distant.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">The second one said, ‘All will be well’.</div> </blockquote> <div> </div> <div>3.<img src="/images/Three_Lebanese_Folk_Songs_Translated_into_English_by_Kahlil_Gibran/I_WanderThree_Maiden_1.png" width="800" height="1200" alt="I WanderThree Maiden 1" style="display: block; margin: 15px auto;" /></div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: center;">‘Ah, well’, said the third, ‘but is not love God?’.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Yester-eve she was reaping with me in the corn,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And in her hair, the wind played gaily.</div> <div style="text-align: center;">O ye poor, pitiful mate-less things!</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Your bread is but thistles and sour grapes, your wine!</div> <div style="text-align: center;">My love took her basket to gather the herbs,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And all through the village, she sought her mate for a companion;</div> <div style="text-align: center;">And finding him not, she threw down her basket and said,</div> <div style="text-align: center;">‘Burn thou up and let the flame rise, a sacrifice to God!’.</div> </blockquote> <div> <div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>1. Folk Songs of Many Peoples with English Versions by American Poets, compiled and edited by Florence Hudson </em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Botsford, Vol. II, New York: The Womans Press, 1922, pp. 368-381, 386-387. As for Rihani’s translations, cf. Waves  </em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>of My Life and Other Poems, pp. 133-137; as for Gibran’s once, cf. The Essential Gibran, Compiled and with an </em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Introduction by Suheil Bushrui, Oxford: Oneworld, 2007, pp. 103-105.</em></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em> </em></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>2. Ameen Rihani, My Day is Bitter (Marmar Zamani), «The Syrian World», I, 10, April 1927, p. 17; Across the Bridge O </em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Come (Translation), «The Syrian World», II, 1, July 1927, p. 13; Tafta Hindi (Translation), «The Syrian World», II, 3, </em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Sept 1927, p. 10; Kahlil Gibran, O Mother Mine (Moulaya), «The Syrian World», I, 9, March 1927, p. 13; I Wandered </em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Among the Mountains, «The Syrian World», I, 11, May 1927, p. 11; Three Maiden Lovers, «The Syrian World», II, 2, </em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>August 1927, p. 13.</em></span></div> <div> </div> </div> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>* This article is based on an excerpt from the paper: Francesco Medici, ‘Muhāǧirūn wa </strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Mutarǧimūn: Early Arab Authors of the Diaspora as Translators and Self-Translators’, «Letters </strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>from Byblos», No. 28, Byblos: 2024, pp. 13-57.</strong></span></p> <div style="border-bottom:1px solid #20379d;margin:80px 0 40px 0;"> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="full1 art-pager " style=";padding:0 0 0px 0px"> <div class="row center1 " style="padding:0px 0" > <div class="c8 " style="padding:10px 20px;"> <ul class="tags inline"> <li class="tag-5 tag-list0" itemprop="keywords"> <a href="/component/tags/tag/kahlil-gibran.html" class="label label-info"> Kahlil Gibran </a> </li> <li class="tag-26 tag-list1" itemprop="keywords"> <a href="/component/tags/tag/translation.html" class="label label-info"> Translation </a> </li> <li class="tag-94 tag-list2" itemprop="keywords"> <a href="/component/tags/tag/syrian.html" class="label label-info"> Syrian </a> </li> <li class="tag-96 tag-list3" itemprop="keywords"> <a href="/component/tags/tag/music.html" class="label label-info"> Music </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="c4 " style="padding:10px 20px;text-align:right"> <ul class="pager pagenav"> <li class="previous"> <a class="hasTooltip" title="A VISUAL MEDITATION - A Rope of Hope" aria-label="Previous article: A VISUAL MEDITATION - A Rope of Hope" href="/latest/154-a-visual-meditation-a-rope-of-hope.html" rel="prev"> <span class="icon-chevron-left" aria-hidden="true"></span> <span aria-hidden="true">Prev</span> </a> </li> <li class="next"> <a class="hasTooltip" title="Rose Cecil O'Neil (Rosalind) - a new portrait by Kahlil Gibran. 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