Pied Beauty

Question 1

First Two Verses?

Answer 1

Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

Question 2

For rose-moles…

Answer 2

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

Question 3

Landscape plotted…

Answer 3

Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

Question 4

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All things…

Answer 4

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

Question 5

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With swift, slow…

Answer 5

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.