The ladder-foot of heaven; where shadowy shapes

In white apparel glided up and down.

His home was like a garner full of corn

And wine and oil—a granary of God.

Young men, that no one knew, went in and out

With a far look in their eternal eyes.

All things were strange and rare: the Sangreal

As though it clung to some ethereal chain,

Brought down high heaven to earth at Arimathèe.

The idea of the poet:—