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This is one of my favorites from one of my favorite poets, and one which really fits today. (Yes, I’m in a better mood this evening than I was yesterday evening\u2014why do you ask?) Unfortunately, if there’s a way to get the proper formatting through this site, it’s beyond me, so apologies for the squared-off stanzas.<\/del>\u00a0 EDIT:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 New site, different problems; the formatting isn’t one of them now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pied Beauty<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Glory be to God for dappled things \u2013<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<\/div>\n
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches\u2019 wings;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Landscape plotted and pieced \u2013 fold, fallow, and plough;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And \u00e1ll tr\u00e1des, their gear and tackle and trim.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
All things counter, original, spare, strange;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<\/div>\n
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Praise him.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\u2014Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1877<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of my favorites from one of my favorite poets, and one which really fits today. (Yes, I’m in a better mood this evening than I was yesterday evening\u2014why do you ask?) Unfortunately, if there’s a way to get the proper formatting through this site, it’s beyond me, so apologies for the squared-off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-and-lyrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6R3Ax-wd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1","url_meta":{"origin":1997,"position":0},"title":"Enter the phoenix","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"25 October 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This site replaces\u00a0two blogs\u2014my personal blog, The Spyglass, and my sermon blog, Of a Sunday.\u00a0 The Spyglass went dormant about five years ago, and the sermon blog went silent when I left the church I had been serving for seven years.\u00a0 I've still been writing, it just hasn't been posted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music and art"","block_context":{"text":"Music and art","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=90"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rjaharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/phoenix-logo.jpg?fit=1024%2C766&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rjaharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/phoenix-logo.jpg?fit=1024%2C766&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rjaharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/phoenix-logo.jpg?fit=1024%2C766&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rjaharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/phoenix-logo.jpg?fit=1024%2C766&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1628,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1628","url_meta":{"origin":1997,"position":1},"title":"A laugh or two for the evening","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"8 December 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"courtesy of the lolcats:","rel":"","context":"In "Humor"","block_context":{"text":"Humor","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?cat=107"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":921,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=921","url_meta":{"origin":1997,"position":2},"title":"For the blessings of the evening","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"30 January 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Every once in a while, I hear a sermon that really shifts me, one through which God speaks to me and works in me in such a way that I know I have been changed. 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