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Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care beyond today. - Thomas Gray
Attribution: Thomas Gray (1716–1771), British poet. repr. In Poetical Works, ed. J. Rogers (1953). Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, st. 6 (written 1742, published 1747). Gray himself was a pupil at Eton College.

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