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.