I Hid My Love - Audra McDonald

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

Wherever I saw a wild flower lie

I kissed and bade my love goodbye

I met her in the greenest dells

Where dewdrops pearl the wood bluebells

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 even the breeze would knock me down

The bees seemed singing ballads over

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

Was nothing else but secret love