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Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things—

  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;Courtesy of Brendan McManus, SJ

    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.