1. Welcome to this flowery place, Fair Goddess and sole Queen of grace: All eyes triumph in your sight, Which through all this empty space Casts such glorious beams of light. 2. Paradise were meeter far To entertain so bright a star: But why errs my folly so? Paradise is where you are: Heaven above, and heaven below. 3. Could our powers and wishes meet, How well would they your graces greet! Yet accept of our desire: Roses, of all flowers most sweet, Spring out of the silly briar. |