The Hollow Wood + 

Out in the sun the goldfinch flits + 

Along the thistle-tops, flits and twits + 

Above the hollow wood + 

Where birds swim like fish⁠— + 

Fish that laugh and shriek⁠— + 

To and fro, far below + 

In the pale hollow wood. + 

Lichen, ivy, and moss + 

Keep evergreen the trees + 

That stand half-flayed and dying, + 

And the dead trees on their knees + 

In dog’s-mercury and moss: + 

And the bright twit of the goldfinch drops + 

Down there as he flits on thistle-tops. + 