A Beck in Winter. 
By Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

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 -