EDELWEISS
Ellen Frothingham translation
Leontopodium Alpinum
"There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our summer plant called 'Life-Everlasting,' a Gnaphalium like that, which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains, where the chamois dare hardly venture, and which the hunter, tempted by its beauty and by his love (for it is immensely valued by the Swiss maidens), climbs the cliffs to gather, and is sometimes found dead at the foot, with the flower in his hand. It is called by botanists the Gnaphalium leontopodium, but by the Swiss Edelweisse, which signifies Noble Purity."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
(Leisure-Hour Series)
ON THE HEIGHTS. 2 vols. THE VILLA ON THE RHINE. 2 vols. BLACK FOREST VILLAGE STORIES LITTLE BAREFOOT JOSEPH IN THE SNOW EDELWEISS GERMAN TALES WALDFRIED THE CONVICTS AND THEIR CHILDREN LORLEY AND REINHARD ALOYS POET AND MERCHANT LANDOLIN