 Th' unfeeling for his own. 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.  Illustrated ed. Summer time in the country - Page 293by Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864Full view - About this book
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