Pied Beauty
Back ] Home ] Up ] Next ]


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 & pieced - fold, fallow, & plough;
        And 'all trades, their gear & tackle & trim.

All things counter, original, sp'are, strange;
    Whatever is fickle, freckl`ed, (who knows how?)
        With sw'ift, sl'ow; sweet, s'our; ad'azzle, d'im;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is p'ast change:
                                                           Pr'aise h'im.

 1877

 
© Jan Rybicki 2003 unless otherwise stated.