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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue her fields, green her waters vary with her skies her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.
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