GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1723
“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.”
(the beginning of “Pied Beauty,” a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1899)
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