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First Line: Over the monstrous shambling sea, / over the caliban sea
Last Line: Baltimore, 1879 - 80.
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


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.
BALTIMORE, 1879 - 80.





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