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_ FINAL SCENE:
Curtain rises on final scene. Same as first, with music as before, and with the mother and father and children among the apple-trees. CHO-CHO
appears, right, and says: "Here they come!" EVERYCHILD
enters, right, bringing with her a number of children, who follow her and then scatter under the trees. Everychild.
Oh, mother, I went everywhere, and we've brought all who could come! But there were some in holes in the ground that I couldn't reach, though we danced and danced, and called and called. They were too far down. And there were some ill and crippled, in hospitals, that couldn't walk, and some hidden away in great buildings called factories--and some in tenements, where there was no sun, and no green grass to walk on. Mother, what shall we do? It was so hard to leave them. Won't you go back with me, and help me?
Mother.
Yes, Everychild. We must all go.
Not one must be left down there.
Father.
Yes, we cannot go on up the Morning Mountains until they come.
Mother.
We will start at once, all of us, down through the
highways and valleys and cities of the world,
and bring them here. Come, children, let us go.
(They gather about her and start down, right,
singing as they go. CHO-CHO lingers behind
for a few moments and pronounces an epilogue.)
EPILOGUE
Not all here yet--
But they must come
To this sunshine--
To these mountains--
To these birds and trees--
To the music--
To the Land of Health,
The Land of Happiness--
They may be gay there--
Sometimes--
Sometimes--
But that is a fool's Paradise--
My old Kingdom--
And I must lead them up
To this new land
Of hope and joy.
(CURTAIN FALLS)
[THE END]
Olive Tilford Dargan's play: Everychild
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