"He fathers forth whose beauty is past change" - comment.

This extracted line is quoted from G. M. Hopkins' memorable poem, "Pied Beauty" which is written in the summer of 1877 when the poet was studying theology at Pantasap in North Wales.

         Here 'He' suggests the God who has blessed us by giving this pied beauty of all things in this universe. God is the creator of the dappled things of the world. He produces the multi-coloured, multi-shaped, multi- natured things in this entire universe, but the beauty of God is eternal, He is beyond change, He himself is the pied beauty.

                Here 'father' is used as a verb means 'to beget'; here it means 'to create'. The word 'forth' adds energy to the expression. 'Father, a common word has been used in its appropriate original sense. This shows Hopkins' complete command over the language. Actually God is the ultimate whose beauty knows no change. God is the "Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."(St. James I, 17). The poet's boundless faith in and devotion to God are all distinctly discernible here.