Pied Beauty (Michael Gray)
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- Editor: Michael Gray (submitted 2017-01-20). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 292 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
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General Information
Title: Pied Beauty
Composer: Michael Gray
Lyricist: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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 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 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.