Glory be to God for dappled things -- <br /> For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; <br /> For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; <br /> Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; <br /> Landscape plotted |&| pieced -- fold, fallow, |&| plough; <br /> And {'a}ll trades, their gear |&| tackle |&| trim. <br /> All things counter, original, sp{'a}re, strange; <br /> Whatever is fickle, freckl{`e}d, (who knows how?) <br /> With sw{'i}ft, sl{'o}w; sweet, s{'o}ur; ad{'a}zzle, d{'i}m; <br /> He fathers-forth whose beauty is p{'a}st change: <br /> Pr{'a}ise h{'i}m.<br /><br />Gerard Manley Hopkins<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pied-beauty/
