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;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow and plough; [5] And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange; With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
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GLOSSARY
GLOSSARY
[Title] Pied: having two or more different colours (from ‘magpie’ meaning black and white)
[1] dappled: spotted with colour or light [2] brinded: striped [3] rose-moles: pink freckles [3] stipple: dotted
the colour of hot coals [5] fold: gentle hill or valley [5] fallow: uncultivated
[6] gear and tackle and trim: all the apparatus of a tradesman
[7] counter: opposite
changeable [9] adazzle: spectacularly lit up