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From a Fireside given by Paul Zeigler on Enthusiasm.

Glory be to God for dappled things-
    For skies of couple-colour as a brindled 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.


                                            -Gerard Manley Hopkins


Last updated: September 22, 2000.