Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things ---

For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow;

For rose-moles all in stripple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced --- fold, follow, 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