meaning of this poem

and so i came across a really cool poem and i was just wondering if anyone wanted to pull a meaning out of it. i feel like it has to do with the connection between man and animal.

he Heaven of Animals

Here they are. The soft eyes open.
If they have lived in a wood
It is a wood.
If they have lived on plains
It is grass rolling
Under their feet forever.

Having no souls, they have come,
Anyway, beyond their knowing.
Their instincts wholly bloom
And they rise.
The soft eyes open.

To match them, the landscape flowers,
Outdoing, desperately
Outdoing what is required:
Thr richest wood,
The deepest field.

For some of these,
It could not be the place
It is, without blood.
These hunt, as they have done
But with claws and teeth grown perfect,

More deadly than they can believe.
They stalk more silently,
And crouch on the limbs of trees,
And their descent
Upon the bright backs of their prey

May take years
In a sovereign floating of joy.
And those that are hunted
Know this as their life,
Their reward: to walk

Under such trees in full knowledge
Of what is in glory above them,
And to feel no fear,
But acceptance, compliance.
Fulfilling themselves without pain

At the cycles center,
They tremble, they walk
Under the tree,
They fall, they are torm,
They rise, they walk again.
by James Dickey

I really don't know. I got this picture of puppy's in my head, from the just opening there eyes thing. I'll say baby animals.

It is true that many believe animals have no soul. However I believe it is not the lack of soul but the lack of knowing right from wrong. To animals there is no other way then to follow their own instinct. We conflict with our instinct for we see right from wrong. They know nothing more then life and death in their world. That is what truely makes the animal kingdom such a mystery to us and so beautiful of observe.