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Pied Beauty    
Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1918
       
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.       


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