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Edward Lear was a landscape painter as well as a poet. Perhaps that explains some of the color choices in his texts. He was especially fond of colors like "pea-green," which appeared not only in his famous verse, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, but also in The Jumblies, a poem in which folks set to see in a sieve to "the lands where the Jumblies live ( Read more... )