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Poem by Sidney Lanier

Hymns of the Marshes. 3. Marsh Song – At Sunset

OVER the monstrous shambling sea,
      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,
      Over the Caliban sea,
Bring hither my brother Antonio,--Man,--
My injurer: night breaks the ban;
      Brother, I pardon thee.

Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier’s other poems:

1. Ode to the Johns Hopkins University
2. From the Flats
3. Nirvana
4. A Florida Ghost
5. Laus Mariae

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