Who had realized that until her arrival
 the crowded heavens had been incomplete?
 The risen one had taken his seat,
 but next to him, for twenty-four years,
 there was an empty space.  And they began already
 to get used to the pure gap,
 which seemed to have healed, because with his beautiful
 spreading radiance the son was filling it.
 
 Thus, when she entered the heavens,
 she did not go towards him, despite her strong longing;
 there was no room, only He was there and shone
 with a radiance that hurt her.
 But just now as her moving figure joined
 with the new blessed ones
 and stood discreetly, as light with light, next to them,
 there erupted from her being such an assault of
 glowing light, that the blinded angel who was illuminated by her
 cried out:  Who is this one?
 A wonderment arose.  Then they all saw
 how God-Father  above shielded our Lord,
 so that in the mild gloaming
  the empty spot could now be seen
 like a small pain, a sense of loneliness,
 as something he was still bearing, a remnant from
 his time on earth, a dried up injury-.
 They watched her; she looked ahead with fear,
 bent far forward, as if she felt: I am
 His most enduring pain-; and suddenly broke forth.
 But the angels took her in their fold
 and steadied her and sang with blessed voices
 and carried her up the final steps.