THE GREAT RESOLVE
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["When Chu Chin Chow reaches its 2,000th representation on the 29th, it will have run for 1,582 days, 26 days longer than the War."
Sunday Times.]
Behind its pendent curtain folds
We know not what the future holds;
We only know that worlds have gone
Since Chu Chin Chow was first put on.
Mid all our stress and strife and change
This strikes me as extremely strange;
I think when plays go on like this
There ought to be an artistice.
But, when we have another war
After the peace we've toiled so for,
And empires break and thrones are bust
And nations tumble in the dust,
And culture, rising from the East,
On tottering Europe is released,
And Chinamen at last shall rule
In Dublin, Warsaw and Stamboul,
Soon as the roar of cannon ends
And all men once again are friends,
I must fulfil my ancient vow
And go and visit Chu Chin Chow.