"I Love You"

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<Helen of Troy and Other Poems

When April bends above me
      And finds me fast asleep,
Dust need not keep the secret
      A live heart died to keep.

When April tells the thrushes,
      The meadow-larks will know,
And pipe the three words lightly
      To all the winds that blow.

Above his roof the swallows,
      In notes like far-blown rain,
Will tell the little sparrow
      Beside his window-pane.

O sparrow, little sparrow,
      When I am fast asleep,
Then tell my love the secret
      That I have died to keep.