Pied Beauty ; GLORY be to God for dappled things, ; For skies of couple-color 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.
: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Three examples of dappled things mentioned in Hopkins' poem "Pied Beauty" are cow ("brinded cow"), trout ("rose-moles all in stipple"), and landscape ("landscape plotted and pieced"). These examples emphasize God's diverse and variegated creation.