OVER the broad, the shallow, rapid stream, The Alder, a vast hollow Trunk, and ribbed -- All mossy green with mosses manifold, And ferns still waving in the river-breeze Sent out, like fingers, five projecting trunks -- The shortest twice 6 (?) of a tall man's strides. -- One curving upward in its middle growth Rose straight with grove of twigs -- a pollard tree: -- The rest more backward, graddual in descent -- One in the brook and one befoamed its waters: One ran along the bank in the elk-like head And pomp of antlers -- |