My Fair Ladies

[David Morris]

Tho your prose intro baffled me a bit, the poem left me in awe.

On Saturday, May 9, 2015, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt that conflating the Greek with the Roman, then mixing in the
> Judeo-Christian, and constructing a pyramid with an underclass of
> slaves and females that may be contracted with the Eastern levelers
> will prove a valid approach. First, we can't even treat the Greeks,
> that is, the ancient Greeks generally, that includes Aristotle and
> Plato and the rest, as one mind on the ladies fair and foul. But even
> if we could, and we can't and mustn't, we would be in greater error
> were we to fail to notice how, Aristotle's "scientific" view is
> directly opposed to the Roman's view, again, generally, to include
> Cicero and his compatriots. The watershed of Christian thought on
> God's creation can't be reconciled with the Judeo view, so here we
> have another major shift in a new, and if not equally, opposite
> direction. While Pynchon may be all mystical, so too is the Christian,
> who finds in binaries, dialects sublime that beyond a mere mortal's
> ken. We can but praise Nature's carnival:
>
> Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.
>
> 13. Pied Beauty
>
>
> 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;                5
>     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:           10
>                   Praise him.
> -
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