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 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:
                                                                       Praise him.

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Keeping with the thankfulness theme. This time from Gerard Manley Hopkins.

The two lines that hang in my mind are:

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings

and

And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

The first is a picture of fall changing into winter. Chestnuts and finches wings, the colors of both depict fall. While the firecoal indicates that the temperature is dropping.

The second is, and I don’t think it’s what Hopkins intended, but I picture a tackle box and fishing gear sitting on the floor of a boat.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems and Prose (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets). United Kingdom, Everyman, 1995. pp15