Marsh Song -- At Sunset.

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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