Object International
7. G.M. Hopkins
From Pied Beauty, 1918
- Glory be to God for dappled things —
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For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; 
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For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; 
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Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; 
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Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough; 
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And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. 
 
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All things counter, original, spare, strange; 
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Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) 
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With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; 
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He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: