Pied Beauty
By Gerard
Manley Hopkins
Glory to be
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.
From: Americans’ Favorite Poems by Robert Pinsky
and Maggie Dietz; © 2000 by Robert Pinsky; W.W. Norton and Company, New York
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