powered by memory

one thing i would like to keep well-used is my memory. besotted with instant information, what is a brain synapse to do? after a refresher (it's been since college) here is "pied beauty" by gerard manley hopkins from memory...

glory be to God for dappled things
for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow
for rose-moles in all 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.