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"Accursed be the hour I raised you from the dust to my
side."--Page 339.
ON THE CROSS
A
Romance of the Passion Play at
Oberammergau
BY
Wilhelmine von Hillern
AND
Mary J. Safford
DREXEL BIDDLE, PUBLISHER
PHILADELPHIA
Copyright, 1902
BY
ANTHONY J. DREXEL BIDDLE.
PRESS OF DREXEL BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.
TO
HERR JOHANNES DIEMER,
THE RENOWNED DELIVERER OF THE PROLOGUE IN THE PASSION PLAYS
OF THE LAST DECADE, A TRUE SON OF AMMERGAU, IN WHOSE
UNASSUMING PERSON DWELLS THE CALM, DEEP SOUL OF
THE ARTIST, THE LOYAL SYMPATHIZING FRIEND, IN
WHOSE PEACEFUL HOME I FOUND THE QUIET
AND THE MOOD I NEEDED TO COMPLETE
THIS WORK, IT IS NOW DEDICATED,
WITH GRATEFUL ESTEEM, BY
THE AUTHORESS.