Note 30 — Chapter IX · The Countess of Hertford and Mrs. Rowe.
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Mr. Waller’s lines, to which her ladyship refers, are at the conclusion of his Divine Poems:
The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
The verses of Dr. Watts which her ladyship intends is the poem in his “Horæ Lyricæ,” entitled “A Sight of Heaven in Sickness.”