The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God

There’s a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,
There’s a little marble cross below the town;
There’s ______ broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And ______ Yellow God forever gazes down.

He was known as “Mad Carew” by the subs at Khatmandu,
He was hotter ______ they felt inclined to tell;
But for all his ______ pranks, he was worshipped in the ranks,
And the Colonel’s daughter smiled on him as well.

He had loved ______ all along, with a passion of the strong,
The ______ that she loved him was plain to all.
She ______ nearly twenty-one and arrangements had begun
To celebrate her ______ with a ball.

He wrote to ask what present ______ would like from Mad Carew;
They met next day ______ he dismissed a squad;
And jestingly she told him ______ that nothing else would do
But the green eye ______ the little Yellow God.

On the night before the dance, Mad Carew seemed in a trance,
And they chaffed ______ as they puffed at their cigars:
But for once ______ failed to smile, and he sat alone awhile,
Then ______ out into the night beneath the stars.

He returned ______ the dawn, with his shirt and tunic torn,
And ______ gash across his temple dripping red;
He was patched ______ right away, and he slept through all the day,
______ the Colonel’s daughter watched beside his bed.

He woke ______ last and asked if they could send his tunic through;
She brought it, and he thanked her with a nod;
He bade her search the pocket saying “That’s from ______ Carew,”
And she found the little green eye ______ the god.

She upbraided poor Carew in the way ______ women do,
Though both her eyes were strangely hot ______ wet;
But she wouldn’t take the stone and Mad ______ was left alone
With the jewel that he’d chanced ______ life to get.

When the ball was at its height, on that still and tropic night,
She thought of ______ and hurried to his room;
As she crossed the ______ square she could hear the dreamy air
Of a ______ tune softly stealing thro’ the gloom.

His door was ______ wide, with silver moonlight shining through;
The place was ______ and slipp’ry where she trod;
An ugly knife lay ______ in the heart of Mad Carew,
‘Twas the “Vengeance ______ the Little Yellow God.”

There’s a one-eyed yellow ______ to the north of Khatmandu,
There’s a little marble ______ below the town;
There’s a broken-hearted woman tends the ______ of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.

And Carew Mad a a and as at barrack before birthday buried cross fact foolish grave he her him him his idol of of of open she than that the then up waltz was went wet