Locke was writing during the dreary Dryden period, when poetry had so greatly degenerated since the brilliant Elizabethan epoch. He himself evidently had no interest in poetry. We know that he did not appreciate Milton (whose Paradise Lost appeared in 1667, when Locke was in his prime).
Compare with the above quotation [p. 357].
Weeping, we hold Him fast, who wept
For us, we hold Him fast,
And will not let Him go, except
He bless us first or last.
Christina Rossetti.
INDWELLING.