Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poems
We little thought when, at our opening show, Now just a score and six long years ago, With untried powers and youthful boldness, we Launched our small back, the Shanghai a.d.c. That it would live to see the century told, And draw to crowded benches, as of old, So many friends who cheered our youthful days, And bring their sons and daughters now to gaze. The task is mine to thank you for the sight Of all your kindly faces here to-night. For throughout all the life time of Shanghai, The endeavoured to supply Some entertainment, humble but well meant, To amuse in winter months the settlement And when we have succeeded, 'tis to you, And not to us, the public thanks are due, Your kind encouragement has lent new force, When we have faltered on our onward course.
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