Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dame Laura Knight

            
                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)

 
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.