For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
Robert Browning
Love
A quote by Robert Browning
From the source
A Death in the Desert.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.