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“Glory be to God for dappled things—”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Hopkins opens with praise for patterned difference in nature, celebrating irregular color, texture and variety within an explicitly Christian vision of creation.

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“Pied Beauty,” written in 1877 and first published in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918), represented by Project Gutenberg #22403. The poem is a Christian curtal sonnet of praise; its theological attribution of natural variety remains devotional poetry.

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