“There's a new path
That we found just today
I was lost in the forest
And you showed me the way…”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, Islands (1987)
“The path was new, and there was thrown
A sweet veil over pleasure's ray;
But ignorance is happiness,
When young Hope is to show the way;”
(12th January 1822) Ten Years Ago.
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
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