Pied Beauty – Matthew Arnold Poem

  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 áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
  7. All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  8. Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
  9. With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
  10. He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
  11. Praise him.