by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

Language: English 
Our translations:  FIN
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.

Composition:

    Set to music by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "Pied Beauty", op. 122 no. 1 (1964), published 1965 [ SATB chorus and piano or strings and harp ], from Inscape, no. 1

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Monimuotoista kauneutta", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 74