Foresight: Stipple

Photo: Esther Dobson

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'Pied Beauty' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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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 àll tràdes, 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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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was an English poet and a Jesuit priest.