Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things--
For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut falls, a finch's wing;
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 (1844-1889)
Praise him.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Spring by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970), from the Tate Gallery. You might enjoy clicking on the link to get a somewhat larger view of this delightful painting.
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