The last line always confused me because I always thought it contradicted the, "Call it a day, I wish they might have said" line that occurs earlier in the poem, yet when I look at it now, I realize that he's referring to the workingmen continuing going about their day. This last line illustrates the "show must go on" attitude of business.
I remember the dazed starling
Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago;
How we stole in, lifted a sash
And wait then, humped and bloody,
For the wits to try it again; and how our spirits
Rose when, suddenly sure,
It lifted off from a chair-back,
Beating a smooth course for the right window
And clearing the sill of the world.
It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.
This particular line always gives me warm fuzzies. Granted, I heard this poem first in a cartoon format, but the cartoon images that now pop into my head when I read this always make me smile.
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick
I was exposed to this -after- seeing the Rudolph cartoon, and remember thinking that it was a huge difference from the larger reindeers in that cartoon!
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."
I'm not the best with poem interpretation. But for me, I look at this last line as the poet stating that the nuzzle of the pony in her hand makes this moment such a happy one - that if this person were a flower, he would bloom right at that moment. This depicts the happiness of this special moment.