#YellowFeverPsalm, music by #JocelynPook, poetry by #JamesStanleyGilbert (d.1906):

You are going to have the fever
Yellow eyes!
In about ten days from now
Iron bands will clamp your brow;
Your tongue resemble curdled cream
A rusty streak the centre seam;
Your mouth will taste of untold things
With claws and horns and fins and wings;
Your head will weigh a ton or more
And forty gales within it roar!

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What I love about the piece (#JocelynPook's #YellowFeverPsalm) is that the song has also been released into reversed presentation, restoring the text of the "psalm" as audible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhStcci9TY

The poem, "Yellow Eyes," is by #JamesStanleyGilbert, aka “The Poet of Panama.” He wrote a number of poems about life in #Panama before dying of yellow fever on August 14, 1906, in a Panama hospital. See https://www.coloncity.com/jsgilbert.html

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