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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Pied Beauty


              1Glory 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;
              4Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
              5  Landscape plotted & pieced -- fold, fallow, & plough;
              6     And áll trades, their gear & tackle & trim.
              7        All things counter, original, spáre, strange;
              8  Whatever is fickle, frecklèd, (who knows how?)
              9     With swíft, slów; sweet, sóur; adázzle, dím;
            10        He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change:
            11     Práise hím.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: The Later Poetic Manuscripts of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Facsimile, ed. Norman H. MacKenzie (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1991): 127. PR 4803 H44A6 1991 Robarts Library
First publication date: 1918
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1996-2000.
Recent editing: 2:2002/3/14

Composition date: 1877
Rhyme: abcabcdbede


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