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Can anyone paraphrase this?

The poem is A bird came down the Walk by Emily Dickinson. In the poem she offers a bird a crumb and then it flies away. I separated the last paragraph with slashes. Can anyone please paraphrase these sentences line by line? I'd appreciate it so much!:) Here it is:
"And he unrolled his feathers/
And rowed him softer home/
Than oars divide the ocean/
Too silver for a seam/
Or butterflies, off banks of noon/
Leap, plashless, as they swim"


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

He spread his wings/
and rowed gently home/
with oars cutting the water/
so bright lit the water/
or butterflies in the afternoon on the banks of the sea/
Jump and swim without splashing