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