Pied Beauty – Gerard Manley

 

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.