Never seek to tell thy love...

 

Never seek to tell thy love

Love that never told can be;

For the gentle wind does move

Silently, invisibly.

 

I told my love, I told my love,

I told her all my heart;

Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears-

Ah, she doth depart.

 

Soon as she was gone from me

A traveller came by;

Silently, invisibly-

O, was no deny.

 

 

William Blake   "Rossetti Manuscript" (1793)