Who said "Ignorance is bliss"
please help!!

[This message was edited on 06-25-03 at 05:36 PM.]

Thomas Gray

To each his sufferings: all are men,
Condemned alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
The 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 destrpy their paradise.
No more:-where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise!
--from stanza 10 of "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (1742), by Thomas Gray (1716-1771).

many thanks for settling this thorny one for me. of course it doesn't help when one is looking for "innocence is bliss"... i will now go to the original work.