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Thread #102016 Message #3906811
Posted By: GUEST,Barry Swallow
19-Feb-18 - 09:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Grandfather Knew the Plough (Nic Jones
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Grandfather Knew the Plough (Nic Jones
Reference poem Pied Beauty BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 1844 1889
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 áll trádes, 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.