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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.