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; 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.

The interest was supported by his uncle Edward Smith his great-uncle the professional artist Richard James Lane and many other family members. Newman received him into the Church on 21 October 1866. It is similar to the "rolling stresses" of Robinson Jeffers another poet who rejected conventional metre.

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