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Episode Eight: “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins – Classic Poetry with Jonathan Roumie

Jonathan Roumie

March 16, 2022

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This week, Roumie reads “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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.

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