Only for a second, man happened to be in harmony with the Powers at play in Nature.

They took the two lovers up for a moment, made them one, and dropped them.

"They relapsed to their ancient mood." The line is a whole lesson in Browning's view of Nature.

But this special interest in us is rare, for we are seldom in the blessed mood of unselfconscious joy and love.

When we are, on the other hand, self-conscious, or in doubt, or out of harmony with love and joy, or anxious for the transient things of the world--Nature, unsympathetic wholly, mocks and plays with us like a faun.