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To: LibertyWoman

Maybe this will cool your mind - it’s my favorite of Hopkins’ poems:

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.


5 posted on 11/18/2021 8:31:05 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
Pied Beauty

Thanks a lot. Now I'm hungry.

6 posted on 11/18/2021 8:54:35 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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