Dappled Things
Alanna Boudreau * Track #3 On Hints and Guesses
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Dappled Things by Alanna Boudreau
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This is the first of Alanna Boudreau’s songs which is basically just a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem put to music, in this case Pied Beauty. It is a very faithful reading of the poem with almost nothing added or subtracted, besides repeating the last couple lines and changing “pieced” on line 5 to “pi...
Dappled Things Lyrics
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 pierced – 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
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him
Glory be to God for dapplеd things
Glory be to God for dappled things
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Dappled Things was written by Alanna Boudreau.