Gerard Manley Hopkins — 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 àll tràdes, 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.