Glory be to God for dappled things

Mike’s photos made me think of this poem and as we were raised in the Catholic tradition we found Hopkins partly through that connection as he was a Jesuit priest

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918. 13. Pied Beauty 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;         5     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:         10                   Praise him. See Notes.