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Although I enter not,
Yet round about the spot
Ofttimes I hover;
And near the sacred gate
With longing eyes I wait,
Expectant of her.
--
Pendennis: At the Church Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

William Makepeace Thackeray

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