Speaking to animals.

They might have told us, that first day:
For one forenoon, we were the guardians
Here of this Garden, unafraid of each
Other or any bifurcate coming to set
Our teeth on edge by rank incivilities,
Proclaiming to rule. Equals, none greater,
None lesser, we understood and spoke
A common speech, understood yours, understood
The Great Animal, the mate-less one, who pleased
To visit us, pleased with our amity. Then
Came afternoon; and you wakened and walked
And began with words the naming of things
To belong to you: naming this worthy,
That less, another not at all, naming
The Great Animal kin of yours, none
Of ours. And the evening of that day
Was the end of our time of sun. Ahead,
We would become the imperiled, the endangered,
A last captive breeding pair--and then dead.