Fallen from his god-like power, Damon is simultaneously resurrected to a single and comprehensive identity, as all change converges to likeness in the "Mower mown." Primary symbols of change in the poem--the snake and the scythe merge within the completely inclusive circle, the scythe reproduces the glittering snake in the grass when it "did into his own ankle glance." Fully identical with Nature "among the grass" Damon, god-like, heals himself--"the blood I staunch and wound I seal"--his power made possible by the loss of his former identity as Damon the Mower. This Damon is shepherd-like, using "shepherd's-purse, and clown's-all-heal," and distinguished from the third person "him" for whom "no cure is found." Damon metaphorically gives Death his mower's name and scythe to cure the other,"him,"

'Tis death alone that this must do:
For Death thou art a Mower too.' (11)