Marsh Song—At Sunset
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| “Marsh Song—At Sunset” is the third poem in the four-poem set Hymns of the Marshes written by American poet Sidney Lanier. He composed the poem in 1879–80 while he was living in Baltimore, Maryland. The poem was published posthumously in 1882. |
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.
