Public Domain Poetry And Stories - Pestilence. by Madison Julius Cawein Public domain poetry and public domain stories from the literary greats of yesteryear.
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.
