Where’er she lie,
Locked up from mortal eye,
In shady leaves of destiny.

These lines imagine a “she” whose resting place or true condition is hidden from human knowledge—“locked up from mortal eye.” The diction of concealment and shade suggests both physical obscurity (a grave, a secluded retreat) and metaphysical unknowability (the future, providence). “Shady leaves of destiny” evokes fate as a kind of book or forest canopy: destiny has “leaves” that can cover, archive, and withhold revelation. In Crashaw’s devotional-poetic idiom, such imagery often points toward the limits of earthly perception and the surrender of human curiosity to divine ordering, implying that what is most important may be veiled until a higher disclosure.