betweenpie

Note: skies betweenpie mountains: I may be wrong, but this phrasing looks like an attempt to retain a unity of experience that we typically break into elements.

Of measures and seeds Fred 2007

There are therefore two writings of betweenpie, a strange word, in which pie apparently makes a compound verb with between, meaning ‘as the sky seen between dark mountains is brightly dappled’, the grammar such as intervariegates would make.

Notes 1918

There are therefore two writings of _betweenpie_, a strange word, in which _pie_ apparently makes a compound verb with _between_, meaning 'as the sky seen between dark mountains is brightly dappled', the grammar such as

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866