In "Pied Beauty," what is Gerard Manley Hopkins praising?

Employing variations of the mottoes of the Jesuit order to
which he belonged--"to the greater glory of God" and "praise to God always"--Gerald
Manley Hopkins appears in his abbreviated sonnet to revere the beautiful colors and
variety in nature, and by praising the beauty of nature, he praises God, the
Creator. However, Hopkins hymn of praise disguises in its controlling metaphor of "pied
beauty" things that do not meet the uniformity, standarization, and efficiency lauded in
his Victorian age, and thus takes on a tone of protest.

In
the fifth line Hopkins moves from an appreciation of variety in nature to "all trades,"
implying the human and moral aspect.  The lines

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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: Praise
Him

suggest that diversity
among humans is just as beautiful as it is in nature and is created alike by God, and
should, therefore be respected and appreciated.  Interestingly, Hopkins applies some
adjectives that were used about his poetry:  "original, spare, strange." These oddities,
along with his turning of "fickle" and "freckled"  which normally suggest a negative
judgment to a positive connotation, are used, instead, as evidence of the infinitude of
God's creation.