Glory be to God for dappled things

Glory be to God for dappled things --
For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced -- fold, fallow and trim. 
[And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.]1

[Glory be to God for dappled things]2
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.

by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) , from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, published 1918

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Gary Bachlund , "Pied Beauty", 1999 [soprano and piano], from Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins, no. 1.
by John Mitchell (1941-) , "Pied Beauty", op. 96 no. 2 (1993), from Four Sacred Songs, no. 2.
by Louise Juliette Talma (1906-1996) , "Glory to God for dappled things", 1949.
by Robert E. Ward (1917-) , "Pied Beauty", published 1966 [soprano and orchestra or piano], from Sacred Songs for Pantheists, no. 1.

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