Marsh Song -- At Sunset

Over the monstrous shambling sea, [1]

Over the Caliban sea,

Bright Ariel-cloud, thou lingerest:

Oh wait, oh wait, in the warm red West, --

Thy Prospero I'll be.

Over the humped and fishy sea,

Over the Caliban sea,

O cloud in the West, like a thought in the heart

Of pardon, loose thy wing, and start,

And do a grace for me.

Over the huge and huddling sea, [11]

Over the Caliban sea,

Bring hither my brother Antonio, -- Man, --

My injurer: night breaks the ban;

Brother, I pardon thee.

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Baltimore, 1879-80.

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