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

 

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.


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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

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; / Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Thomas Gray

What female heart can gold despise? / What cat's averse to fish?

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He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where angels tremble while they gaze, / He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.

Thomas Gray