Speckled eggs? Piebald horses?
December 27, 2008 1:23 PM Subscribe
"God bless the speckled things"? What poem am I misremembering?
Arrgh! This poem has been at the tip of my tongue all day long but my brain just can't find it, and my efforts at googling have been unsuccessful.
More clues:
- It's a list of beautiful speckled things in nature
- I think it contains the word "piebald"
- It might be by Auden, Housman, or WC Williams
- I will never know peace again until I find it
Thank you!
Arrgh! This poem has been at the tip of my tongue all day long but my brain just can't find it, and my efforts at googling have been unsuccessful.
More clues:
- It's a list of beautiful speckled things in nature
- I think it contains the word "piebald"
- It might be by Auden, Housman, or WC Williams
- I will never know peace again until I find it
Thank you!
Best answer: link.
Glory be, in particular, for dappled things.
posted by kenko at 1:27 PM on December 27, 2008
Glory be, in particular, for dappled things.
posted by kenko at 1:27 PM on December 27, 2008
Best answer: It's by Gerald Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty"
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 and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat at 1:28 PM on December 27, 2008
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 and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat at 1:28 PM on December 27, 2008
Response by poster: Thank you, thank you! I can live again!
posted by ourobouros at 1:30 PM on December 27, 2008
posted by ourobouros at 1:30 PM on December 27, 2008
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Glory be to god!
posted by kenko at 1:26 PM on December 27, 2008