516. Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
b'GM Hopkins read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\nPied Beauty\\nby Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 \\u2013 1889)\\n\\nGlory be to God for dappled things\\u2014\\n For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;\\n For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;\\nFresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches\\u2019 wings;\\n Landscape plotted and pieced\\u2014fold, fallow, and plough;\\n And \\xe1ll tr\\xe1des, their gear and tackle and trim.\\n \\nAll things counter, original, spare, strange;\\n Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)\\n With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;\\nHe fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:\\n\\n Praise him.\\n\\nFirst aired: 21 November 2009\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'