Pied Beauty (Michael Gray)

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• (Posted 2017-01-20)  CPDL #42727:   

Editor: Michael Gray (submitted 2017-01-20).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 292 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

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Title: Pied Beauty
Composer: Michael Gray
Lyricist: Gerald Hopkins^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Antiphon

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

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Description: First Movement of the "Centenary Antiphon"

External websites: http://www.graymichael.com

Original text and translations

English text

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.

Glory be to God for dappled things
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.