Tuesday, October 29, 2013

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.


        

3 comments:

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

brinded cows and trout imagery. Nice.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I'm reminded of that mirror in Harry Potter where you look into it and you want to see yourself as you really are.

A worthy goal, IMHO.

deborah said...

"Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings"