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1747 in poetry
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Alas! regardless of their doom,
- The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come,
- Nor care beyond to-day:
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Yet, ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
- And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their Paradise.
No more;—where ignorance is bliss,
- 'Tis folly to be wise.
- — Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (full text here)