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 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.





"Pied Beauty"
Gerard Manly Hopkins~