Sunday, April 01, 2007

Celebrating Poetry and its Inspiration

Pied Beauty
by Gerard Manley Hopkins 

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 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.
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