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PESTILENCE
High on a throne of noisome ooze and heat,'Mid rotting trees of bayou and lagoon,
Ghastly she sits beneath the skeleton moon,
A tawny horror coiling at her feet—
Fever, whose eyes keep watching, serpent-like,
Until her eyes shall bid him rise and strike.
| The poems of Madison Cawein | |