The Less I Know I Know

I grew up close to Nature see animals give birth And i learned just a tiny bit about our Mother Earth And close to the Goddess of Nature into manhood i did grow But the more i learn of Nature the less i know i know About the Natural World all around us everywhere And though often in the moonlight in Spring evenings i heard the mother hare Calling out to her leverets from me she was upwind Next day I'd search the meadow for them though them I'd never find. I searched the meadow for them a hectare of ground But never any trace of them and them i never found And never any sign of them though i knew that they were there I could not even learn about the secrets of the hare. In the twilight of the evening from a branch of tree nearby I watched the badgers clean out their sett as darkness cloaked the sky And then they brought in dried grass they kept their home so clean And i could only marvel at the thing that i had seen. I often heard the curlews o'er the brown bogland in May And though an old man told me green brown blotched eggs they lay I never did find their nest though i felt it was nearby Their secret of survival to be secretive and shy. I grew up close to Nature i was a country boy And i got to know a little about creatures that run and fly And i thought that i knew Nature well but in hindsight i recall That Mother Nature keeps her secrets well hidden from us all.