Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.

The couplet contrasts limited human perception with a divine perspective that discerns renewal where people see only decay. “Withered leaves” evokes loss, endings, and apparent barrenness; “sweet flowers growing” suggests hidden life, future fruition, and providential purpose. The line functions as a compact statement of religious hope: setbacks, grief, or moral failure may look final from a human vantage, yet within a larger spiritual order they can be the soil of transformation. Its balanced parallelism (man/God; withered leaves/sweet flowers) gives it the feel of a devotional maxim meant to console and reframe suffering.