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PIED BEAUTY by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

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First Line: GLORY BE TO GOD FOR DAPPLED THINGS
Last Line: PRAISE HIM.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; CHRISTIANITY; ENVIRONMENT; FIELDS; GOD; LANGUAGE; MEN; NATURE; RELIGION; WORSHIP; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION; PASTURES; MEADOWS; LEAS; WORDS; VOCABULARY; THEOLOGY;
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 all trades, 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.


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