That last line of the poem made me think of an old Chuck Berry record but that's enough of that. Like Tairin I've encountered that verse a few times but now I fully understand the meaning.
Also, out walking our dog Sophie, with the knowledge of her canine visual and aural spectrums I often wonder how she sees and hears the world. This has been more prominent over recent weeks, since first reading this section. How different our world which is but one world. Out this sunny morning on our riverside walk, I took the camera and photographed ducks, herons, cormorants, gulls etc and started wondering about their world view, their perception of magnetic fields etc. Reading this section again just now, all this brought home how restricted my view of reality really is and just how much I'm not seeing. You could say its been an eye opener for me but I have no eyes
Apply that to all those preconceptions in all other aspects of life and I begin to see how restrictive that is to. Most of my life I've been wary, cautious and to a degree untrusting, always thinking about the motives or agenda of others.
Time to stop building walls, time to start building bridges.