"In the Garden of Death" is by and large a visualisation of the fairy tale "Story of a Mother", by the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875).

The essential part reads as follows:

"And then they entered Death´s vast conservatory, where flowers and trees grew in wonderful order and variety. There were delicate hyacinths protected by glasses, and great, healthy peonies. There grew waterplants, some looking quite fresh, some sickly. Here were seen magnificent palm-trees, oaks, and plantains; yonder clustered the humble parsley and fragrant thyme. Not a tree, not a flower, but had its name, and each corresponded with a human life; the persons whose names they bore lived in all countries and nations on the earth; one in China, another in Greenland, and so forth. And the grieving mother bent down over all the tiniest plants; in each one she heard the pulse of human life. - Many flowers and trees have withered during this night; Death will come very soon to transplant them. - I do but accomplish His will, said Death. I am His gardener. I take up all His plants and trees, one by one, and transplant them into the glorious garden of paradise - into the unknown land."