• I hid my love while 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 I saw a wild flower lie
    I kissed and bade my love goodbye

    I met her in the greenest dells
    Where dew drops pearl the woods bluebells
    The lost breeze kissed her bright blue eye
    The bee kissed and went singing by
    A sunbeam found a passage there
    A silver chain round her neck so fair
    As secret as the wild bee's song
    She lay there all the year long

    I hid my love in field and town
    Till the breeze would knock me down
    The bees seemed singing ballads
    The fly's buss turned a Lion's roar
    And even silence found a tongue
    To haunt me all the year long
    The riddle nature could not prove
    Was nothing else but secret love