82. _Passage in St. Bernard._--Wordsworth's _Ecclesiastical Sonnets_,
Part II. 1.:
"CISTERTIAN MONASTERY.
"Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall,
More promptly rises, walks with nicer heed,
More safely rests, dies happier, is freed
Earlier from cleansing fires, and gains withal
A brighter crown."
_Note._--"Bonum est nos hic esse, quia homo vivit purius, cadit
rarius, surgit velocius, incedit cautius, quiescit securius,
moritur felicius, purgatur citius, praemiatur
copiosius."--_Bernard._
"This sentence," says Dr. Whitaker, "is usually inscribed in some
conspicuous part of the Cistertian houses." I cannot find in St.
Bernard's works the passage to which Wordsworth's sonnet alludes, though
I often see it referred to: e. g. Whitehead's _College Life_, p. 44.,
1845; and Mrs. Jameson's _Legends of the Monastic Orders_, Preface. Can
any of your correspondents direct me to it?