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To: Jamestown1630

I like that one too


49 posted on 02/21/2019 5:34:58 PM PST by I-ambush (One foot in the grave,one foot on the pedal. I was born to rebel.)
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To: I-ambush

Another of my favorites:

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.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins


51 posted on 02/21/2019 7:17:45 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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