{"id":4440,"date":"2012-10-08T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2012-10-08T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:56:01","slug":"open-book-gerard-manley-hopkins-pied-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2012\/10\/open-book-gerard-manley-hopkins-pied-beauty.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Book: Gerard Manley Hopkins&#8217; &#8220;Pied Beauty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/files\/2012\/10\/pied_beauty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4441\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/309\/2012\/10\/pied_beauty-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Glory be to God for dappled things&#8221;&#8230;so begins Hopkins&#8217; sublime and thoughtful ode to the types of things most poets avoid \u2014 the imperfect, the strange, the ordinary. 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