Pied Beauty

SOURCE:  

• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins

KEYWORDS:  wonder, nature, creation, awe, 

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 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.