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jrde: from Hopkins : Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things –


For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;


For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;


Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;


Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;


And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.





All things counter, original, spare, strange;


Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)


With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;


He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:


Praise him.