A bit of wit from the paper, apropos of nothing.

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Everyone should know tthat it was Hunt who wrote the immortal couplet,

The two divinest things this word has got:
A lovely woman in a rural spot.

which has been even more wonderfully lampooned:

The two divinest things this world can grap:
A handsome woman in a hansom cab.

It was Leigh Hunt who wrote two of my favorite "standard" poems, "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Jenny Kissed Me." I can remember being amazed the day I discovered that the same person was responsible for both since the styles are quite different.

"Jenny Kissed Me" is one of my favorite poems, as well. Thank you for reminding me of it.

Agreed, and thank you, CJ. Here are links to Abou Ben Adhem and to Jenny Kissed Me. Each is brief.

Thank you CJ, for mentioning it, and thank you, Hic, for posting the link. I learnt Abou Ben Adhem at school (I suspect it was in lots of poetry collections of that sort of vintage), but have never come across Jenny Kissed Me before.

I agree with the others; it is an excellent, simple yet elegant, poem.