Nicholas Laughlin's blog etc.

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, from "Pied Beauty", p. 69 in the 4th edition of the Poems, ed. Gardner & MacKenzie.