I've a secret to tell thee, but hush! not here - <br />Oh! not where the world its vigil keeps: <br />I'll seek, to whisper it in thine ear, <br />Some shore where the Spirit of Silence sleeps; <br />Where Summer's wave unmurmuring dies, <br />Nor fay can hear the fountain's gush; <br />Where, if but a note her night-bird sighs, <br />The rose saith, chidingly, 'Hush, sweet, hush!' <br /> <br />There, amid the deep silence of that hour, <br />When stars can be heard in ocean dip, <br />Thyself shall, under some rosy bower, <br />Sit mute, with thy finger on thy lip: <br />Like him, the boy, who born among <br />The flowers that on the Nile-stream blush, <br />Sits ever thus - his only song <br />To earth and heaven, 'Hush, all, hush!'<br /><br />Thomas Moore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-ve-a-secret-to-tell-thee-2/
