Literature/Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1877
Gerard Manley Hopkins's curtal sonnet giving glory to God for dappled and varied things.
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.