Friday, June 21, 2013

Pied Beauty ~ Gerard 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 plough;
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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
More at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins

Artwork Beatrix Potter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter

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