Secret Love

I hid my love when young till I     Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;     I hid my love to my despite     Till I could not bear to look at light:     I dare not gaze upon her face     But left her memory in each place;     Where eer I saw a wild flower lie     I kissed and bade my love good bye.     I met her in the greenest dells     Where dewdrops pearl the wood blue bells     The lost breeze kissed her bright blue eye,     The bee kissed and went singing by,     A sunbeam found a passage there,     A gold chain round her neck so fair;     As secret as the wild bee's song     She lay there all the summer long.     I hid my love in field and town     Till een the breeze would knock me down,     The bees seemed singing ballads oer,     The fly's bass turned a lion's roar;     And even silence found a tongue,     To haunt me all the summer long;     The riddle nature could not prove     Was nothing else but secret love.