The Work of God
I've forgotten what's most important to me. I stumbled across the following poem while studying. It gives the description of the world that leaves me with nothing but awe. My reaction to all this is simply the last line of the poem. It's something I have regrettably forgotten.
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; | 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. |

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