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Slide set: The better land (song: Bamforth & Co., 7 slides, 1895)

Known references to this set (listed below slide images)
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Slide 1
Mother, where is that radiant shore? / Shall we not seek it, and weep no more?
Slide 2
(Effect) Is it where the flower of the orange blows / Or the fire-flies dance through the myrtle boughs?
Slide 3
Not there, not there, my child
Slide 1 (rpt)
Is it far away in some region old / Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold
Slide 4
(Effect) And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand / Is it there, sweet mother, that better land?
Slide 3 (rpt)
Not there, not there, my child
Slide 5
Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy, / Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;
Slide 6
(Effect) Dreams cannot picture a world so fair
Slide 7
Far beyond the clouds, far beyond the tomb. / It is there, it is there, my child, 'tis there
1905
Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 160
1906
c.1909
[City Sale & Exchange slide catalogue] (London: City Sale and Exchange, c.1909), 639
1909
Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 130
Other reference
19 December 1894
Lucerna ID  3001097

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 4 May 2024

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