Nor has lit unholy fire
In man's heart, that gross desire
From thy purity should spring.
He, too, describes the celestial Paradise as a lovely garden, in which Mary walks as queen, and he says of her celestial maidens, (perhaps a reminiscence of the mythological German swan-maidens):
Thy white hand with blossoms
Their chaplets enhances,
Thou show'st them the dances
Of God's Paradise.
'Mid radiant skies
Thou gather'st heavenly roses.