William Makepeace Thackeray Quote

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). - The History of Pendennis (1848-1850)