Pied Beauty

Pied Beauty
By Gerard Manley Hopkins


Glory be to God for dappled things--
     For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
          For rose-moles in all stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
     Landscape plotted and pieced-- fold, fallow, and plough;
          And a'll tra'des, 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.