Pied Beauty

by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A breathless thank-you for everything dappled, freckled, and odd — and for the changeless God behind it all.

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;
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Themes: gratitude · reflection