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wrought implements of workmen and farmers made of wood, iron, leather, rushes and willow, with a beauty of form dictated by the tool’s use.
The pleasure of the sounds of the combined words as well as the surprising juxtapositions of the facts of life, “All things, counter, original, spare, strange,” hold our attention. He unifies his litany with his opening and closing cries, “Glory be to God.. .” and “He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him”, postulating God the father, paradoxically never changing in a kaleidoscopic world.
Pied Beauty
(published in 1919)
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 plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle
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