Pied Beauty

¹Glory be to God for dappled things —

²For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

³For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

⁴Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;

⁵Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough;

⁶And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

⁷All things counter, original, spare, strange;

⁸Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

⁹With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

¹⁰He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

¹¹Praise him.