A Beck in Winter

Over the broad, the shallow, rapid stream,
The Alder, a vast hollow Trunk, and ribb'd--
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, gradual 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--