The Complete Verse of Noel Coward by Noël Coward

Author:Noël Coward
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408145906
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

Canton Island

Accept this testimonial from one

Who’s travelled far, who’s travelled fairly wide

Who’s sought for many a changing tropic tide

Who, in the varied course of his career,

Has journeyed North and South and West and East,

Sharing with pleasure, not unmixed by fear,

The diverse habitats of man and beast.

This testimonial need not be scorned,

Idly dismissed or casually ignored

Especially as he who writes was warned

That here on Canton Island he’d be bored.

Bored! On this self-sufficient coral reef?

Bored with this fascinating personnel?

Bored with the luxury beyond belief

Of this irrelevant and strange hotel?

Where every meal provides a different thrill

Of gay anticipation; where each dish,

No matter how it’s listed on the bill,

Tastes doggedly of oranges or fish.

Where modern science has so deftly brought

Refrigeration to the finest art

That even a Red Snapper freshly caught

Smells unmistakably of apple tart!

Where all the bedrooms are equipped with showers

With, written on the faucets, Cold and Hot

So that the passengers can pass the hours

Endeavouring to find out which is what.

Where, when you find your bed has not been made,

Little avails your anger or your sorrow,

Swiftly you learn to let emotion fade

Then ring the bell and wait for a Chamorro.

(Chamorros! Children of the Southern Seas,

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