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Das erste Mal beim Morgenländer entdeckt und diesen Monat bei Radio Vatikan: Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), diesmal "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; 
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.


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