"When painful truths invade the mind, / Ev'n wisdom wishes to be blind, / And hates th' officious ray."
Ode to Amynta 
At least 2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1758, 1793).<br>
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First published in <u>The London Magazine. Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer. For May 1758.</u> (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1758), 253. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3308373788&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>Poems by the Late Reverend Dr. Thomas Blacklock; Together With an Essay on the Education of the Blind. to Which Is Prefixed a New Account of the Life and Writings of the Author.</u> (Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Chapman and Company; sold by W. Creech, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, London, 1793). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T80566">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;