Pied Beauty

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1. GLORY be to God for dappled things—
2. For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
3. For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim:
4. Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
5. Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
6. And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
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8. All things counter, original, spare, strange;
9. Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
10. With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
11. He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
12. Praise him.