Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins


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 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.


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