Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
John Dryden
Wisdom
A quote by John Dryden
From the source
Britannia Rediviva. Line 1.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.