Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
Robert Browning
Nature
A quote by Robert Browning
From the source
Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.