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

J. Milton Hayes

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. It appeals to the imagination from the start: those colours, green and yellow, create an atmosphere.

J. Milton Hayes

An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,
'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

J. Milton Hayes

J. Milton Hayes

J. Milton Hayes

Born: 1884

Died: 1940 (aged 56)

Bio: James Milton Hayes, known as J. Milton Hayes, was an English actor and poet, best known for his 1911 dramatic monologue The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, much parodied by his contemporary Stanley Holloway and later by The Goon Show.

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