PIED BEAUTY

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 áll trádes, 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.