The Secret
We have a secret, just we three,
The robin, and I, and the sweet cherry-tree.
The bird told the tree, and the tree told me,
And nobody knows it but just us three.
But of course the robin knows it best,
Because she built the - I shan't tell the rest;
And laid the four little - something in it -
I'm afraid I shall tell it every minute.
But if the tree and the robin don't peep,
I'll try my best the secret to keep.
Though I know when the little birds fly about
Then the whole secret will be out.
------Anonymous