Lyrik am Abend

Das erste Mal beim Morgenländer entdeckt und diesen Monat bei Radio Vatikan: Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), diesmal "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 all  trades, 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.