Pied Beauty (2021)

for mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
2 minutes and 45 seconds

written for the Temple University Concert Choir

Recorded on April 21, 2022 by the Temple University Concert Choir
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Paul Rardin, conductor


Pied Beauty (1877) by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

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