Can take in all, and verge enough for more."
To this I shall add the famous apothegm at the close of the following stanzas, in his Ode On a Prospect of Eton College:
"Yet, ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies;
... ... Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise."
The same thought is expressed by Sir W. Davenant in the lines:
"Then ask not bodies doom'd to die
To what abode they go: