But the snake has never actually turned against the poet and bared its fangs. It merely moves along the way, without stopping to say hello or goodbye. This is why that although the is a nature lover: "Several of nature's people/I know, and they know me;/I feel for them a transport/Of cordiality;" she has never warmed to the snake, and its seeking out of the coolest and boggiest places. Like other natural creatures in the poet's embrace, the snake is honored with humanization as a fellow. The poet acknowledges her prejudice against those individuals who possess a snake-like nature, who hide from her, comb the ground, or seem like a whip and then disappear. But that does not make the snake any less of a fellow being, any more than a dislikable human fellow one does not 'take' to, personally. This is why she "But never met this fellow, Attended...

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