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.

–Gerard Manley Hopkins

Jules has a nice round-up of Thanksgiving posts (including links to Bob and Enoch), and Sissy has a link-laden historico-economic consideration of what brought the Pilgrims away from the brink of starvation, for which there are related considerations here. Just to be mischievous, I’m going to add this into the mix, as part of our celebration of empowerment through dependency.