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 stepped away from me
And this she did say
"It will not be long, love
Till our wedding day"
She stepped away from me
And she moved through the fair
And so fondly I watched her
Move here and move there
And then she turned homeward
With one star awake
Like the swans in the evening
That glides o'er the lake
All the people were saying
No two e'er were wed
But one had a sorrow
That never was said
She smiled as she passed me
With her goods and her gear
And that was the last
That I saw of my dear
Last night she came to me
My dead love came in
And so softly she entered
That Her feet made no din
And She laid her hands upon me
And this she did say
"It will not be long, love
Till our wedding day."
