Analysis of We Two-How Long We Were Fool'd

   WE two--how long we were fool'd!
   Now transmuted, we swiftly escape, as Nature escapes;
   We are Nature--long have we been absent, but now we return;
   We become plants, leaves, foliage, roots, bark;
   We are bedded in the ground--we are rocks;
   We are oaks--we grow in the openings side by side;
   We browse--we are two among the wild herds, spontaneous as any;
   We are two fishes swimming in the sea together;
   We are what the locust blossoms are--we drop scent around the lanes,
         mornings and evenings;
   We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals;       10
   We are two predatory hawks--we soar above, and look down;
   We are two resplendent suns--we it is who balance ourselves, orbic
         and stellar--we are as two comets;
   We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods--we spring on prey;
   We are two clouds, forenoons and afternoons, driving overhead;
   We are seas mingling--we are two of those cheerful waves, rolling
         over each other, and interwetting each other;
   We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious,
         impervious:
   We are snow, rain, cold, darkness--we are each product and influence
         of the globe;
   We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again--we two
         have;
   We have voided all but freedom, and all but our own joy.