my young love said to me my mother won t mind and my father won t slight you for your lack of kind and she laid her hand on me and this she did say it will not be long till our wedding day and she went away from me and she moved through the fair and fondly i watched her move here and move there and then she went onwards just one star awake like the swan in the evening moves over the lake last night she came to me my dead love came in so softly she came her feet make no din and she laid her hand on me and this she did say oh it will not be long now till our wedding day