| Glory be to God for
dappled things— |
| For skies
of couple-colour as a
brinded cow; |
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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.
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| All things counter,
original, spare, strange; |
| Whatever is
fickle, freckled (who knows
how?) |
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With swift, slow; sweet,
sour; adazzle, dim; |
| He fathers-forth whose
beauty is past change: |
Praise him.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Classic Poems |
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[ The Sea and the Skylark ] [ Windhover ] [ Spring ] [ Hurrahing in Harvest ] [ God's Grandeur ] [ The Wreck of the Deutschland ] [ The Caged Skylark ] [ Moonrise ] [ Inversnaid ] [ Pied Beauty ] [ as kingfishers catch fire ] [ In The Valley of the Elwy ] [ The May Magnificat ] |
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