alder-sprays

Updated: May 18, 2025

The musical motion of the water seems almost unnatural amidst the general stillness: brooks, like men, must keep themselves warm by exercise. The overhanging rushes and alder-sprays, weary of winter's sameness, have made for themselves playthings, each dangling a crystal knob of ice, which sways gently in the water and gleams ruddy in the sunlight.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862