The feet of people walking home

The feet of people walking home
With gayer Sandals go -
The Crocus, till she rises
The Vassal of the snow -
The lips at Hallelujah
Long years of practise bore
Till bye and bye these Bargemen
Walked singing, on the shore!

Pearls are the Diver's farthings -
Extorted from the sea -
Pinions - the Seraph's wagon -
Pedestrian once, as we -
Night is the morning's Canvas -
Larceny - legacy -
Death, but our rapt attention
To immortality -

My figures fail to tell me
How far the village lies -
Whose peasants are the angels -
Whose Cantons dot the skies -
My Classics vail their faces -
My faith that dark adores -
Which from it's solemn abbeys
Such resurrection pours!