Welcome to this flowery place

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.

Paradise were meeter far
To entertain so bright a star:
But why errs my folly so?
Paradise is where you are:
Heav'n above, and heav'n below.

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.