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.
____ Baltimore, 1879-80.