Slide set: The edelweiss gatherer (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 15 slides, 1893)

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Slide 1

A flower of wondrous beauty blooms in the Alpine mounts, / On rocky cliff, 'mid snow and ice, near never resting founts

Slide 2

And many a lady fair had offered gold in vain / To tempt her guide to risk his life the lovely flower to gain

Slide 3

But Carl Anspach was fearless, and when he heard of the boon, / He vowed he would pluck the floweret before the morrow noon

Slide 4

While thus in thought, Annette came forth from out her father's door, / 'What, Carl!' she said, 'Art joyful then?' Why, what in fairy lore

Slide 5

It gleamed upon the Edelweiss, and Carl who all alone / Had dared the dreadful avalanche, had scaled the snow-clad cone

Slide 6

The sun shone on another form scaling the ice-clad steep: / It was Annette! for dreams had come forbidding her to sleep

Slide 7

For in a dream she thought she stood upon the awful height, / With Carl suspended down below, in the early morning light

Slide 8

The rope was fastened to a rock. Oh horror! at the edge / Its strands were nearly cut in twain by the cruel rock ledge

Slide 9

She woke, she dressed, she rushed without, regardless of the cold / For Carl Ansprach would lose his life in gaining her the gold

Slide 10

For she saw the swinging, straining rope, she saw the parting strands, / She saw, oh, horror! saw him fall! unhelped by human hand

Slide 11

She reached the top! she ran! O, God! she seized the parting rope, / Her dream was true! 'twas almost through! yet angels bade her hope

Slide 12

'Ten golden pounds! that is your worth! a gold piece every bud! / 'Twill please Annette when I give -- What's this? A spot of blood!

Slide 13

Who calls? who calls Carl? and why should I be quick? I can see -- / Why, what is this? a woman's head? Annette's? it cannot be!

Slide 14

This misty sun is dazzling! it is fancy without doubt, / Again that cry! did some one say, 'My wrists are giving out' '

Slide 15

Upwards he climbed, he gained the cliff, he kissed the bleeding wrists, / But nevermore seeks Edelweiss among the mountain mists

Catalogue entries (3)

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 543

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 123

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 81

Lucerna ID 3000918

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 May 2024

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Slide set: The edelweiss gatherer (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 15 slides, 1893)