Pied Beauty

Milkmaid with Cows. Julien Dupré.

 

Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

Glory be to God for dappled things—

For skies of couple-colour as a brindled cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches wings;

Landscape plotted and pierced—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.

One thought on “Pied Beauty”

  1. The colors in this painting are just perfect for this poem!

    The page where this poem is located in my Child’s Anthology of Poetry is dull from my perusing it. It is a poem that always touches me.

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