Week 6

Pied Beauty

By Gerald 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 plow;

                                And all trades, 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.

Glory be to              dappled things—

                For skies of couple-                                         ow;

                                For rose-moles                                                 that swim;

Fresh                     chestnut              finches’ wings;

                Landscape                           old,       low,       low;

                                                                                                    

                                With swift, slow; sweet,               dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is             change:

                                                 raise him.