Pied Beauty
[Under development: 3 June 2005 ]
I love this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins' for its unrestrained celebration, for its celebration of difference and variety in life, and for its celebration of colour.
· What do you celebrate?
· What, for you, is the function of celebration?
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If you have a visual disability, how are you
with the visualness of
· How readily do you accept / embrace difference?
· To what extent do you prefer things that are the same?
Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things -
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles in all 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.
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
