Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

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.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Wordless Wednesday

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3 comments:

  1. OneOctober 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM

    Does Wordless Wednesdays go well with Wordless Comments? Guess not. :) Lovely flowers.

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  2. GailOctober 20, 2010 at 7:09 PM

    Very nice~Goldenrod makes me smile~gail

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  3. AnonymousOctober 21, 2010 at 4:25 AM

    Goldenrod is such a happy plant. Too bad it gets a bad rap when confused with ragweed.

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