Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple-color 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. Er, wha-haaaat?? ehhehehhe Praises God beauty that involves a multiplicity of color beauty by association poet may have a minor obsession with spotted things: 'Glory be to God for dappled things' 'skies of coupled colors' (blue and white, red and yellow) spotted (brinded) cows moles on trout finches' wings when a chestnut falls, the color inside is golden and shines through landscape - textured, plotted, pieced, fold, fallow, plo...