This piece was written in April 2002. It is based on the poem
by Gerald 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;	5
And áll trádes, 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:	10
Praise him.

If you have an mp3 player, or a
plug-in that plays
such things, or you have Quicktime 4 (or better), you
can hear the Christ Church Choir perform this
piece by clicking on Hopkins:

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