O joys! Infinite sweetness! with what flowers
And shoots of glory, my soul breaks, and buds!

In these exclamatory lines Vaughan renders spiritual joy as an organic, springlike eruption: the soul “breaks, and buds” the way a plant bursts into flower. The imagery fuses inner experience with the natural world—“flowers” and “shoots of glory” suggest both freshness and upward growth, implying that divine encounter is not merely consoling but generative, producing new life and beauty within the self. The phrase “Infinite sweetness” intensifies the sense of an unbounded, almost overwhelming delight, characteristic of devotional lyric in which ecstatic feeling becomes evidence of grace. The metaphor also hints at transformation: the soul is not static but capable of continual renewal and blossoming toward “glory.”